User talk:WVhybrid

Establishing the TalkPage for a new account. WVhybrid 02:39, 20 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome!

I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

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youngamerican (talk)

The above message is a generic template, and I see that you have some of those things down pat, but it does have some helpful stuff. Anyways, good to have another editor on board that is interested in WV articles. youngamerican (talk) 01:02, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Every little bit helps. youngamerican (talk) 02:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there :) Great contributions to West Virginia as a whole. Do you know if there is a page dedicated to the Hatfield-McCoy trail system? I linked to a proposed page on Corridor G if none exists. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 01:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, that was what I was looking for! As for Beech Fork State Park, I don't have any current photos of that. Next time I am in the area I can try and grab one. Seicer (talk) (contribs) 03:35, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Re: Robert Milligan McLane

John Kenney added the list to the article with this edit. I merely noted the fact that McLane was DNC chairperson after noticing it on the list when I was expanding his biography. You'll have to ask him where he got the list from, because I can't seem to find it on Google. --tomf688 (talk - email) 22:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The hoax template thing

Did everything work itself out ok? youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 12:35, 8 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Blackwater River (West Virginia) - thanks!

Hi WVhybrid, sorry I didn't respond to your earlier message (I'm easily distracted sometimes...) But big thanks for adding the great information to the Blackwater River article! I made a few very minor changes just now, mostly just adding a few wikilinks and taking a few away, but the information is useful and interesting and solidly-sourced, and I'm very appreciative of the addition. --Malepheasant 04:42, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Audra

Here ya go: http://www.audrastatepark.com/recreation.html

I hope this helps. Feel free to rewrite my mention of the remnants, if so desired. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 12:05, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. Not too long after you dicussed "foot in mouth" (which you were not guilty of btw, you just spotted a needed citations), I suffered from a serious case of said disease over naming conventions. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 00:01, 5 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

New River Trail

I'm a bit occupied in the Grand Canyon trail articles at the moment. What I looked up was nice, though and would make a good article. We need more thru-trails, on Wikipedia and on Earth! Notary137 05:40, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Catbird seat

Hi, I think you should still list whatever webpage you found about his daughter on Talk:Catbird seat; maybe others can dig up the reference. Cheers, AxelBoldt 19:32, 18 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hawks Nest State Park

I think the redirect actually led to Hawk's Nest, West Virginia. It was decided long ago that there need not be an article on both the location and the state park, and that the best place for an article was at Hawks Nest. However, people started writing other articles on other places that happened to be called "Hawk's Nest" and whantnot. I still tend to think that there only needs to be one article to cover both the state park and its location, but I am totally open to revisiting the discussion over where it should be located. Cheers and keep up the good work on WV articles. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 12:19, 26 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cropped image of your image

I wanted to let you know I have made a modified copy of one of your photos (Glade Creek Grist Mill.jpg). The cropped image will be eventually used as a clickable button on List of West Virginia state parks, that will click through to your original image description page. I cropped the image to fit it in the list table I am creating. You can see a draft version at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:WVhybrid/My_own_sandbox . The cropped version of your image can be seen on the irow for Babcock. State Park. WVhybrid 23:59, 23 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful work so far! I'm glad my photo has found its use in a West Virginia-related article! Keep up the great work :) —UED77 17:31, 28 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Stonewall Jackson Lake photo

Nice picture of the dam at Stonewall Jackson Lake.

By any chance do you have any nice photos of the state park? If so, would you mind posting one at Stonewall Resort State Park? Thanks. WVhybrid 00:50, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any photos of Stonewall Jackson Resort SP, but I do have a number of photos of other West Virginia state parks, forests, and lakes that I'm working to upload.

BMPowell 19:18, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

Beech Fork SP

I haven't been ignoring you, I just don't make it out that way too much. But I'll see what I can do in the next few weeks about snapping a pic. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy-hoy) 13:11, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Audra state park

I thought they deleted a bunch of stuff too at first, but upon careful examination, there was no deletion, just moving some text that LOOKED like deletion due to the red markup in comparing versions. They basically made a new paragraph and clarified a word or two. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 22:28, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Now I'm a joiner

Thank you for your message

I'm assuming it's appropriate to write here -- please forgive me if it is not, and chalk it up to ignorance, not malice. (There seems to be a lot of "first contact" going on here, at least on my part). I wanted to thank you for your message from earlier today. As is quite obvious, I am not well-versed in the ins and outs of Wikipedia communication (as well as other more technical aspects of the website). I have in the past resisted getting to know these ins and outs, preferring to treat the website as strictly a user-editable online encyclopedia. Nevertheless, as I've said before I respect the overall venture and as such I will try a bit harder to familiarize myself with the conventions attending Wikipedia generally.

As instructed, I'm leaving a four-tilde signature with the hope that I'm at least doing that the right way. 71.224.218.188 04:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beech Fork SP

The images have been taken. I need to sort them out, and then I'll upload a couple of the best. Cheers. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 20:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

State park list

Has it had a peer review yet? They know more about featured standards than I.

BTW, the Beech Fork SP pics are up. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 02:01, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Does WV have a designation for "state parks" and "state resort" parks like Kentucky? The latter indicating that it has overnight lodging... Seicer (talk) (contribs) 04:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Beech Fork pics

Touch them up if you wish, just don't make them look fake or too touristy. I'm a fan of warts-and-all realism, especially on Wikipedia.

Alos remeber that they are on the Wikimedia Commons and not on Wikipedia, so fix them up over there. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 14:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, I just found it. It looks great. If you wish, you can upload it under the "new version of the file" on the original photo. This will prevent having the commons cluttered with two nearly identical images. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 14:15, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done

I've uploaded your touched-up image at the original name (I have also given you credit for your touchup) of my old, bland versions and changed the links back to it. I have also put the "image A"s up for deletion as they are now redundant.

I did notice one minor point, however. I exclusively license my images on the GFDL and nothing else. Please do not add creative commons licensing to any of my photos, even if you do touch-ups on them, as I a pretty sure that I am still the author and it is still my call (I could be wrong about that however. Even if I am correct, I politely ask you to respect those wishes as professional courtesy).

So anyway, what did you use to touch the photo up? It is, quite frankly, awesome. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 14:38, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. So back to my question: what software makes them rock like that? youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 23:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You already answered. :P I was scrambling to get the bird in before it flew away. I've got other pics that had the bird at a better angle, but didn't look as nice otherwise. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 23:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The 2000 Campaign=

Why did you delete the nominations section of the article? It was important.

copyvio

Post the link to the article and to the source from which it was ripped off and I'll check it out. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 00:57, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 02:53, 9 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Chirality

I left a note on my talk page, with best wishes, --Smokefoot 13:30, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pink Bridge Incident

Someone slapped up an AfD saying it was "per nom". Comments are welcome at Pink Bridge Incident. Thanks, Seicer (talk) (contribs) 15:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your support! It is well appreciated and noted. Cheers Seicer (talk) (contribs) 05:14, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Go for it.

An AfD would certainly be a good idea. youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 00:58, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Famous People from South Shields

I thought the references you wanted were to justify the notability of the person and I don't understand the reference system you are using. There's no need to get so personal. Pages like this one are pointers to other pages regarding these individuals and this page has always been well policed in the past, but if you want to spend time referencing every single person on it, that's fine, I have better things to spend my time on. Anyway, a better reference for Corbett Cresswell is http://forum.southshields-sanddancers.co.uk/boards/viewtopic.php?p=77565&sid=e71614c422218dfe8cb18fd37fdd3631. I'll let you put it in if you wish. lawsonrob 20 December 2006, 20.38

Thanks for your help on WV Related ships.

See if you can drum up another support please on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion/Log/2006_December_27#Category:US_State_Related_Ships --71Demon 22:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have work on articles quite often. I took a long break because I got fed up with bad editors. To much time is wasted on Wiki defending things by people that find it easier to put of an afd, then to do research and contribute. --141.157.157.105 19:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Prodding

Hi, thanks for your work on this. Can you please not leave the articles uncategorized after prodding? I believe you're getting at least some of your prods from the uncategorized lists. Thanks. Akihabara 04:12, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Sheila Graber

Re your inference that a birthplace requires a citation on Sheila Graber, this is quite simply wrong. Do you think that Fred Dibnah needs a citation to says he's from Bolton, or Paul McCartney to says he's from Liverpool? No. Please stop inserting citation requirements where they are not needed, it reduces the credibility of the site for a casual reader - These tags should be used where there is genuine reason to suspect that the fact is incorrect, controversial or blatently fraudulent. lawsonrob 21:30, 3 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hello LawsonRob-you seem to take a great (if somewhat negative)interest in myself and my work - maybe you'd like to e-mail me directly please. I'm now living in Southern Ireland - although of course this is not relevant.

Category US State Related Ships

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_January_4#State_ship-related_categories as soon as the cfd was removed, some one started abusing there power and put it back up. Please put your vote to keep thread up again. Once a cfd is removed, they should have to wait 6 months to put it back. This is nothing more than abuse because somebody didn't get their way. --71Demon 20:25, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

User Box

People that live along the border get the contrast. --71Demon 16:10, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Pullman Square

Pullman Square has been nominated as a good article nominee. If you wish, you can review the article and make an input; your help may push it to A status! Cheers, Seicer (talk) (contribs) 02:26, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park

As we work on the WV state park pages, we should settle on how we want to treat the name for the park at Stonewall Jackson Lake. The park was originally just Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park and that is still technically its legal name. Once they built they resort, they started marketing it as Stonewall Jackson Resort State Park and now it is being marketed as Stonewall Resort State Park. The sign at the front of the park along US 19 (in the photo we have in the article) says Stonewall Resort at Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park.

I'm thinking we should refer to the park by its legal name, Stonewall Jackson Lake State Park. What do you think?Brian Powell (talk) 02:22, 28 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WV to-do stuff

Consider working on some articles for WMAs. The WV protected areas template has too many red links in that section. Also check out the contributions of User:Bmpowell, as he has really taken the point on protected area articles. y'am'can (wtf?) 00:23, 3 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"Resort" in State Park Names

I've noticed we're inconsistent on if we include "Resort" on the name of state parks in the list. I'm thinking we should either always include the word or never include it. What do you think? Brian Powell (talk) 20:26, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Elevation Lookups

I found a better tool for doing elevation lookups by lat/long. EarthTools.org has a web-service that will do lookups using NASA/USGS data. This is the same underlying dataset that topocoding.com uses for the Google Maps plugin I've been working with up until now.

I added a link for the new tool to the GeoHack tool that comes up when you click on a coordinates link in Wikipedia. It's towards the end. The data has decent resolution - about 270 feet horizontally. For exact peaks and low spots the real USGS topos are probably going to be better, but for most stuff this tool should do the job and it'll go a lot faster.

Do you think I should make a template for linking to the height data, sort of like Template:gnis for GNIS location data? Brian Powell (talk) 21:41, 20 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Better USGS Elevation Lookups

I figured out how to interact directly with the USGS Elevation Query web service. I've added a link to the GeoHack tool that will pool the data from there using whichever dataset the USGS service determines is most accurate. Since this data is pretty much "straight from the horses mouth" and the results will even tell you which dataset it used, I'm inclined to use this instead of EarthTools.

For specific high/low points, going from a topo map would probably still be better but I think the results here are going to pretty close to dead-on, at least the best we're going to be able to get electronically. Brian Powell (talk) 16:18, 21 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

USGS Topos

I have to things I found out about the USGS topos I wanted to pass along:

There is a cite template we can use for referencing the maps. This example is populated for the Reddish Knob quadrangle:

<ref name="USGS Reddish Knob">
{{cite map
| publisher=  [[U.S. Geological Survey]]
| title=      Reddish Knob, Virginia quadrangle
| year=       1999
| scale=      1:24,000
| series=     7.5-Minute Topographic Series
| isbn=       978-0-607-93862-3
}}
</ref>

USGS now appears to have the most-recent topos available as PDF scans directly online. (I had been working from WVGIS scans before, which were a little bit older. Go to http://store.usgs.gov and click on "Map Locator and Downloader." What's really neat is that the maps are geo-registered. If you install the GeoPDF toolbar for Acrobat, you can grab the lat/long coordinates from anywhere in a map by hovering over it. I figure this should help in figuring out highest/lowest points for the Geoboxes.

Brian Powell (talk) 21:15, 22 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WMA pics

Wildlife pics will work as great placeholder images 'til one of us gets to a given WMA. y'am'can (wtf?) 22:20, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cacapon Resort

I added some photos for Cacapon Resort State Park that I took yesterday. Brian Powell (talk) 23:52, 26 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

WV parks list

I replied on the peer review - User:Dincher, User:VerruckteDan and I were the main editors on List of Pennsylvania state parks so you may want to ask for their feedback on the peer review too. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 12:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be happy to take a look. I'll let you know what I think, shortly. Dincher (talk) 22:25, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

My comments are posted at the PR page. Keep up the good work! Dincher (talk) 23:29, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, bigger pics would be better. The Glade Creek Grist Mill pic is so good at the top, that it just doesn't look right cropped. Do you have another pic of the same park? The other pics in the columns look fine, I like the pic of Chief Logan. He raised some fuss in Pennsylvania as well. Dincher (talk) 00:19, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

(ec) I think if you are concerned about the cropped thumbnails it is fine to mention it in the FLC nomination. If you look at the PA state parks list, we brought up the image galleries for the same reason. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 00:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Former Grandview SP

Can a free pic be found of the area that was in the former SP? A thumb of said area would be a nice touch for the list. y'am'can (wtf?) 13:22, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have some pics from the Grandview overlook and probably some general ones of the park (as part of NRG) if helpful. Brian Powell (talk) 13:58, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an article for Grandview? Should we make a little table for former state parks, as the Penns. list has?WVhybrid (talk) 22:39, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't hurt. y'am'can (wtf?) 22:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Panther

I just found out that Panther State Forest is now Panther Wildlife Management Area. I moved the page but its text still needs updated. Brian Powell (talk) 05:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Motto of the day

Hello, I notice you're using one of the {{motd}} templates, run by Wikipedia:Motto of the day. You may have noticed that some of the mottos recently have been followed by a date from 2006, or on occasion simply "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia". The reason for this is that Motto of the day is in some very serious need of help. Participation in the project, which has never been especially high, has dropped considerably over this past summer, to the point we have had several days where no motto was scheduled to appear at all. Over the past several weeks, I've been the only editor scheduling mottos at all, but there aren't enough comments on some of these mottos to justify their use. If we do not get some help - and soon - your daily mottos will stop. In order for us to continue updating these templates for you, we need your help.

When you get a chance between your normal editing, could you stop by our nominations page and leave a few comments on some of the mottos there, especially those that do not have any comments yet? This works very simply; you read a motto, decide whether or not you like it, and post your opinion just below the motto. That's it - no experience required, just an idea of what you personally like and what you feel reflects Wikipedia and its community. If you do have past experience with the project, then please close some of the older nominations once they've got a decent consensus going. There are directions on the nominations page on how to do this.

If you have any questions, please let me know, or post on the project's talk page. I'm looking forward to reading your comments on the suggested mottos, and any additional suggestions you'd like to make. Until then, happy editing! Hersfold ^(t/a/c) 01:45, 4 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]