I don't want thing leaking into the article refs. The point is to document that the thing came from a GPS measurement by an individual user. It is vital that any source for cordinates can be documented so secondary users can rip out all the ones with potential IP issues (database rights and the like) if they so wish.©Geni 20:49, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
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Hi, thanks for fixing up those coord templates and the glitches BCGNIS tag; I had an edit conflict with you after being out for a while but I looked over the changes and no peaks are missing, which might have taken some time to sort out ;-). Anyway just wanted to comment the tag is superfluous; it turns out the small tag only lasts for the cell, the same way italics does on a bullet line/hatnote; maybe in another browser than mine (Camino/Firefox) it appears different, though.....Source in all cases so far as BCGNIS, though some will get amended from STRIM/Bivouac's data as BCGNIS has rounded minutes in some cases; and I still need to go over, or hope someone will go over, the actual sequence; the border's twisty and north-to-south doesn't render the sequence along the divide...it's interesting to find out, or realize, that there's parts of BC farther east than parts of Alberta...one BCGNIS descrpition, for Mount Beatty, which I"m about to add, says "east of Palliser River" which really, as a BCer, sounds quite odd.....there's at least two-three dozen more peaks to be added, I'll add the type switch from now on....Skookum1 (talk) 21:12, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Stephen,
Many thanks for tidying up the coordinate information on my translated German articles. I am learning all the time about how the format works, but thanks for being patient in the meantime! --Bermicourt (talk) 13:59, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
Good to see you are still with us and thank you for fixing my mistakes. I really appreciate it! :)
What are your thoughts on this California water bill Arnold just signed? IMHO new dams are not the answer, conservation is. I have a neighbor that washes down his driveway almost every morning-so he is using Cobb Mountain drinking water to clean the truck and driveway! What are your thoughts on this? Cheers Marcia Wright (talk) 17:39, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
I am using a 2009 map of Saskatchewan i have and i am also using a couple different books to make sure they are settlements, and sorry about the DEC DMS coords i will do my best to correct the mistakes. Cheers Kyle1278 03:57, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
Over at Category:California ranchos the template:kml only lists the first 200 entries in Bing (Google works). I note that there are only 200 entries on the 1st page. I guess could (should ?) ask the question over at template:kml - but you are Mr. Coords to me (and a lot of other people). Thanks Emargie (talk) 03:35, 9 December 2009 (UTC)
In this edit you changed the size (dimension) of the Crystal Ballroom from 50 meters to 600. Needless to say, that part is not a valid edit. In this edit and others you've removed the elevation parameter. We had discussed type:mountain(elevation) not being documented. Actually both types of elevation parameter used to be documented, but somehow vanished. Would it satisfy you if entries were re-added to template talk:coord and WP:GEO for elevation:? (The removal of scale is valid wherever dim: is present.) —EncMstr (talk) 07:36, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
I noticed your edit of Mount Saint Helena and you are correct that the summit is still the highest point in Napa County. I removed link to the list from the See also section because I moved the link into the infobox which I believe is valid. If you have no objection I will remove the link in the See also section. If you do object please leave a note on may talk page and we can discuss it. Thanks. –droll [chat] 05:56, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
Hi Stephen,
As you wrote the article on this creek, I need your opinion about what I should do-I am trying to get either a article or a section on all DFG ecological reserves and there is one at the Atascadero Creek Marsh, although even the official state Fish and Game website has minimal information about it. Would it be out of line to add a sentence or two about the reserve to the existing Atascadero Creek (Sonoma County, California) article? I'm not sure it merits its own article at this time.
The 1995 survey would be one source, though not the best. I commute through the county but my route is Mark West/Petrified Rd area. Let me know whether or not to pursue this idea. Cheers, Marcia Wright (talk) 22:18, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
Yes. Not sure what your point is though? Especially since:
In which case, I did advise the user to create a username and account. So, again, i'm not sure what you are trying to insinuate, and that you should clarify. Or, ironically, the newcomer policy could apply to you as well as being clear, courteous, calm, interested, and respectful. --Eman007 (talk)
Responding to your message: First, I believe that the thing you implied is not true. I don't know of any commonly-accepted policy or guideline that tells people to log in before making wholesale or substantial edits. I think this is a notion of your own that you're using (in good faith) to discourage this editor from contributing.
As I understand, there is for protected and featured articles which the San Francisco article is.
I assume 64.81.57.93 is a newcomer and not an established user. Someone who's made less than 60 edits fits my concept of a newcomer. Someone who has no welcome message on his or her talk page also fits my concept of a newcomer.
I think this is your fault as far as jumping to conclusions. The user has made over a 100 edits since February of last year and many to the San Francisco page. Certainly not a "newcomer" under any objective evaluation, and more of a casual editor probably. Not sure why you added the welcome message either when the user probably had one back in 2008, and deleted it.
Furthermore, if this person is going to editing pages for here on out, then this helps my case as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Why_create_an_account%3F
You do not need to reveal your offline identity, but having an account gives you a fixed Wikipedia identity that other users will recognize. While we welcome anonymous contributions, logging in under a pseudonym lets you build trust and respect through a history of good edits. It is also easier to communicate and collaborate with an editor if we know who you are (at least, who you are on Wikipedia). It is also easier for veteran users to assume good faith from new users who take the effort to create an account (and you may well become a veteran user yourself some day!). You may well be afforded a great deal less leeway if you do not go to the trouble of making up a username.
This is especially true for a user that edits quite often a featured and/or protected article.
I'm also worried that you're trying to communicate with this user via edit summaries, which are easily missed, even by experienced users with watchlists and all. If the edits he or she is making aren't constructive, you should explain why on the user's talk page, focusing on the nature of edit itself instead of the (to me, unimportant) detail that the person who made it was not logged in.
Because the user is just using an IP, and with no messages on its talk page, I assumed that the user isn't getting any messages, or would bother to read them, or uses multiple IPs which happens quite frequently on wikipedia. All the more reason to create an account.
Secondly, as it was a minor edit, I didn't think it warranted a message on the talk page. Writing messages on talk pages can be unnecessary depending on the scale of the edit, and in my opinion, a picture caption change doesn't necessitate it.
If the user wants to remain anonymous, I suppose that's fine. However, if they want to start making wholesale articles on a regular basis, start good faith with us senior editors, be able to be contacted, and follow wikipedia policy as far as being able to edit featured and protected articles, then the user, should create an account. There really is no excuse given its free with no obligations. Not unless the IP has another agenda, which in my years of editing wikipedia, it always is the case. -Eman007 (talk)
I just thought I'd let you know I'm working on this at the moment. I've now managed to deal all the odd corner cases and FIPS 10/ISO 3166 incongruities I've found to date, and I'm now trying to filter out the remaining outliers from the source GNS and GNIS data, which are most likely data entry errors. -- The Anome (talk) 02:09, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
oh yes i think dey r wrong.....i got this from wikimapia.....mayb i made a mistake in entering dem.....if you want its location....it is where sir maneckji mehta rd and jijamata road meet. its located south of jijamata rd along the prince of wales drive. i guess this will do....thnx a lot.Nirvanareborn(TeenSpirit) 17:27, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Hi just to let you know you are missing a rank in the Garda Siochana page of Superintendent which is one bar one diamond. Chief Supt is a bar and 2 diamonds. the Sgt has his chevrons below his numbers. just to let ya know —Preceding unsigned comment added by 10silop (talk • contribs) 20:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
How do i delete the user pages?--Andrewcrawford (talk - contrib) 19:43, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Hello. On my recently created article, Wickiup Reservoir, you fixed the coordinate tags. Thanks for doing so; may I ask how you did it? They are always getting messed up when I try it! Leave me a ((tb)) and reply here. Thanks again! smithers - talk 01:02, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
((coord|43.6643|N|121.8115|W|type:waterbody))
. Converting by hand (or with a calculator) is a pain, but can also be done. --Stepheng3 (talk) 17:54, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
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Thanks for fixing that. I knew there was something wrong but I just couldn't see it. The coordinates may need a bit of tweaking as they are for the helicopter landing pad. something lame from CBW 22:31, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for the reminder about the ((coord)) template using type:isle, not type:island. I should have remembered that since I updated some documentation on those types, but that was quite a while ago. -- Zyxw (talk) 08:39, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, Thanks for your edit to the infobox on Montacute House, however if you look at Talk:Montacute House you will see that this compromise solution was hammered out after a long debate between several users. I suspect it will be reverted by those who really dislike the infobox.— Rod talk 18:34, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I was wondering if the region problem you highlighted with diff means that template:infobox bathhouse needs a fix in order to generate the right region code? Cheers Ash (talk) 17:15, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
Hello. I notice you recently nominated an article for deletion using the ((prod))
template. Please make sure to not include the rationale for deletion outside the template, as you did in that diff. Please also be more specific as to why you want the pages deleted. Thank you. —DuncanWhat I Do / What I Say 16:34, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
Belated thanks for adding a map to ((GeoTemplate/mercury)). I was hoping someone would do that. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 18:15, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
I looked over your edit to ((Infobox mountain/main)) and reverted it. I'm sure it was well intended but WP:MOUNTAINS is trying to be very selective about edits to the template. Before you edit the active template I think it would be a very good idea to discuss your revision first at Template talk:Infobox mountain. –droll [chat] 06:38, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
Comments on the usability of ((GeoTemplate)) (the page listing mapping services found by clicking on coordinates in articles) are invited, at Template talk:GeoTemplate#Usability redux. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:47, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank-you for fixing the coord macros in the translated pages. The german macro seems quite different and I couldn't completely work out the english equivalent! 18:46, 20 March 2010 (UTC) User talk:Ajcoxuk
From memory the template formats the field itself if no commas are present. The density(s) is calculated form the area(s) and pop(s) - but these require the absence of commas. Hence the error was leaving the thousands separator in, not removing the millions. Rich Farmbrough, 14:55, 21 March 2010 (UTC).
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. The problem was that 2 of the articles are no longer municipalities and so no longer have valid SFOS ID numbers. The other 2 were misspelling within the templates. Tobyc75 (talk) 15:21, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
Thank you for pointing out my error of CA vs CN. I have been using WMO country codes for 25 years. Apparently, I occasionally use the WMO code in error. Thanks for pointing out my mistake. (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 22:09, 28 March 2010 (UTC).
done, but this is another school. :)Yukiseaside (talk)00:32, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
In case you are interested, see here. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:20, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
Hi Stephen,
Your recent edit to the Parkend, Gloucestershire page causes the coordinates to be written twice (over-written on itself). I'm not too sure which is the best coordinate entry to remove - to stop this happening. Would you mind taking a look please. Thx. Obscurasky (talk) 16:47, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
I noticed that in your edit to teh geobox on the Kooteany River article putting the United States before Canada, your edit summary said "due to obscure limits of geobox", but because the river is almost 70% in Canada, I still think it would be more logical to put Canada first. Just like the U.S. ,Canada is also a country, so why would the geobox "discriminate" against Canada? Shannontalk contribs 23:10, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
From the Infobox Swiss towns talk page:
Ok, took care of it. Kempraten is a village that makes up part of the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona. Since statistics are usually only reported for municipalities, the villages are just listed with a 0 population or what ever population they had when they merged into a municipality. Let me know if you see any more like that. Tobyc75 (talk) 20:20, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
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I see your point about the defunct California railroads listing, but coastal rivers of Mendocino County have a unique linkage with isolated logging railroads. Each of the river drainages contained a lucrative stand of timber with a downhill skid pattern to a sawmill located on flat ground adjacent to an estuary with the potential for loading ships where interior transportation of lumber was unavailable. The ubiquitous combination of river, sawmill, company town, and logging railroad is extensive: Here is a preliminary list:
Where I found enough information, I created a separate article like the Caspar, South Fork and Eastern Railroad. Many of the railroads carried the name of the parent lumber company, and few of those would meet notability criteria for a separate article, even if reliable information sources could be found. When the subject appears unlikely to meet notability criteria, I have attempted to combine it with an existing article. While description of the lumber company often fits best into the article describing the community (often a company town) originating around its sawmill, railroad geography is a better fit to the rivers where steep canyons typically confined the railroad within a stone's throw of the river. In places where no article exists, I favor creating an article on the river (like Usal Creek) rather than a vanishing community of questionable notability. I prefer redirects to creation of trivial stubs, and suggest leaving information in a single article until we get over 30K.Thewellman (talk) 07:20, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
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I have started a discussion for changing CGNDB into a redirect here. Thanks for your input in this matter. Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 16:36, 15 May 2010 (UTC)
I have no idea what actually happens when you make this edit or what "adm2nd" means or even why you have made this edit. No doubt, there is some policy or consensus behind it, but I admit to my ignorance in this area. What I do know is that, now that you have made that edit, if you use Google Maps through the "coord" link, it opens on an entirely inappropriate scale whereas the use of "state" had Google Maps opening on an adequate scale. The Riverina is a huge area and needs a reasonably small scale map to show the entire region. Your edit forces a much larger scale map. Can you revert or fix, please? -- Mattinbgn\talk 23:27, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
When I originally made my edit, I noticed the coords were both in the text and in the title of the article and I thought perhaps that my removal of the inline coord template would just reduce the overall display of coords by one. I didn't realize that I had removed the coordinates completely. My apologies. Killiondude (talk) 21:07, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
If you want a system on your userpage where you don't have to update it monthly, you could do something like ((Unreferenced stub|date=((subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR)))) (the ((subst:CURRENTMONTHNAME)) ((subst:CURRENTYEAR)) part) for each template. I made a test here and it formatted it correctly. Just a suggestion, if you're not comfortable with it it's no big deal to me. :-) Killiondude (talk) 02:44, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for catching my oversight at Bald Mountain (California). I looked at the preview before I saved but still missed those brackets. –droll [chat] 05:31, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
Hi there,
Thanks for your comment on my talk page. I've posted a reply on the Joplin talk page.
Best wishes,
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Could you change the bottom from light blue to gold? Thanks, Purplebackpack89 02:56, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for fixing the coordinates on the Nintendo World Store article! I was trying to copy the forumula from the page about geocoordinates on Wikipedia, but you understood it better. Thank you. dogman15 (talk) 01:50, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hello, Stepheng3. I became interested in the "searches to find problems" table at Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates/coordinates search tool. As I went through it, I found myself scrolling horizontally quite a bit. Would you be willing to put the wide column ("MySQL regular expression query") over to the right? This would put the two status columns closer to the left, and visible without scrolling horizontally. I'm assuming you're building this table with a tool. If you're building this table by hand, I'd be happy to volunteer changing the columns, if you wish. BrainMarble (talk) 22:06, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
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Hi Stepheng3! I have reverted your edit to Template:Infobox kibbutz as it broke the templates on hundreds of articles. I appreciate the work that you put into the template, but please don't make major changes without discussing them first. In any case, we have had several discussions on the subject at WT:ISRAEL and came to the agreement that the generic template was unsuitable for the project's needs. In the case of your edit, it also broke any refs present in the template, and certain other fields. Cheers, Ynhockey (Talk) 11:12, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
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