User talk:Rhvanwinkle

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Hello, Rhvanwinkle, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

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Fairleigh Dickinson, Jr.

In general, links should only be to something that people might actually link to. For dates, full dates should be linked (e.g. [[November 13]], [[2007]]), but year-only dates should not. I suggest reviewing the Manual of Style to better understand these issues. Thanks again for all of your work on local articles. Alansohn 22:24, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

Mystic, Connecticut

I have removed the link to Mystic ballet, as it is not vital to Mystic, as not very many people would link to it. It is altogether a very minor part of Mystic, and a place like Mystic Art Association would be more of a notable place. The Mystic Ballet is just not important enough to be here. Erick880 (talk) 21:58, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Catgory changes to mayor articles

Please stop adding articles about mayors of Jersey City to Category:Mayors of places in New Jersey. They are already in Category:Mayors of Jersey City, New Jersey and should not be in both the super and sub-categories. Jim Miller See me | Touch me 01:33, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Heads-up on created page

Just so you know, a page on the Passaic-Bergen Rail Line already exists, and your created page is redundant. Also, hate to say it, you got the name backwards, per all the NJT literature I've seen, Passaic comes first in the name. See here: [] Also, the DMUs planned are not technically light rail, so It doesn't belong on the Light Rail in NJ template.oknazevad (talk) 16:58, 24 September 2008 (UTC)

L. A. Dunton pic

Nice L. A. Dunton photo! Thanks for uploading it.--Fullobeans (talk) 21:56, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Ha. Judging from the flurry of action on my watchlist, somebody took a trip to Mystic Seaport recently. Anyways, nice photos all, it's great to see new ship images being added. --Fullobeans (talk) 22:01, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

List of schooners

Back again, monopolizing your talk page with praise. Thanks so much for creating and filling the image column on List of schooners; I just couldn't seem to get around to it, and feared that no one else would, either. It looks great! --Fullobeans (talk) 06:41, 13 December 2008 (UTC)

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Fire Departments in NJ

Hi, I see you've begun some great work by starting Category:Fire departments in New Jersey. If you're going to be putting some work into this, I'm interested in helping you. I'm going to start off by putting an "Emergency Services" section to the respective municipality's articles like this, and inserting a {{main|MAIN ARTICLE}} tag into that section. Sound good? shirulashem (talk) 21:24, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

Sounds very good. I like the addition of the emergency services section to the River Vale page. Your help is greatly appreciated. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 21:51, 28 December 2008 (UTC)

North Hudson & New Netherland

I've noticed that you made an addtion emergency services. Just thought I'd point out that there is an article for North Hudson itself, would ask you to help with it should you come across info that you think is appropriate. (I've linked the newly created one as a see also) Secondy, and more interestly, I've also noticed that you have done some work on articles I've created or done major work on related to New Netherland. You're a descendent of an original Pavonia settler, I gleen from the name and the article (WOW!-I'm impressed) I myself am not, but the subject is dear to me. (Born, raised, lived, and live: Manhattan, Weehawken, Hoboken, Amsterdam (NL). Am hoping to really get the New Netherland series organized as I believe that, in light of this 400th annivesary year, there will more more hits to them. Your help there would also be greatly appreciated. Djflem (talk) 05:48, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

Creating empty talk pages

Please don't create talk pages just for the sake of creating them, as at Talk:Shelland. It wastes the time of people with the article on their watchlist, and wastes time of anyone wanting to edit the article, who will see that there's a talk page and check it in case there has been relevant discussion. There's nothing to be gained by creating an empty talk page, so please don't continue to make them. Thanks. PamD (talk) 18:16, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

AckermanDewsnap.jpg?

Did you take the image AckermanDewsnap.jpg? or what would be the source if not, thanks--Kolrobie (talk) 11:00, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Source with reference added.Rhvanwinkle (talk) 20:11, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

List of tallest buildings in New York City

Hey Rhvanwinkle, I tried recreating the table from List of tallest buildings in New York City on Cornish Wikipedia at Rol a dhrehevyansow an uhella yn Cita Ebron Nowyth. Why is it not showing up the same? How can I rectify this? Thanks! --Caponer (talk) 23:51, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

County NRHP lists

Hi RH ... First off, thanks for your work on National Register of Historic Places listings in Bergen County, New Jersey and other NRHP-related articles. I wanted to explain why I reverted one of the edits you made to the Bergen County list. WP:NRHP's policy is to have the names displayed in the lists reflect the name that's in the National Park Service NRIS database (with the exception of obvious typographic errors, of which there are many in the database). When a WP article for a given site has a different name, we use a piped link so the name displays as it is in the NRIS. Also, it's helpful to other editors if you include a brief edit summary when you edit a page. Even a short summary is better than none at all. Thanks again for your contributions and keep up the good work! --sanfranman59 (talk) 18:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

No problem. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 18:45, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Discussion at WikiProject New Jersey

Hi, Rhvanwinkle, User:Nightscream and I had a disagreement over certain parts of NJ municipality articles; because the discussion could potentially affect hundreds of articles, we decided to bring the discussion to WikiProject New Jersey. I would value your input in the discussion, which you can find here. Thanks, A Stop at Willoughby (talk) 15:31, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

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Lebanon, Connecticut

Howdy!

Just wondering: why do you think that the article on Lebanon, CT should be rated Start-class? I know it's not very large, but it seems to be pretty comprehensive, relative to it's size and prominence... no? Thanks! Korossyl (talk) 15:54, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

Reassessed as a C class article. The article is comprehensive and well developed but there is always room for improvement. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 13:00, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Two thoughts

Thanks for your work on talk page tags, an otherwise thankless job. I suspect that I'm one of the guilty parties -- all of my recent creations have them, but I didn't understand the need when I started creating Maine lighthouse stubs.

Would you please add a short summary to your edits? For your current additions to the lighthouse talk pages, even "tags" would be enough. That's particularly true on a talk page, as page watchers will want to see what you said -- and, of course, a tag says nothing.

More important, you might consider using AWB for these edits. It's much much faster than doing them one at a time. I've used it for similar things -- going through a list of talks to remove {{reqphoto}} where applicable. You can set it up to add the appropriate tags to every article in a list and then hit "ignore" for those that already have them, and "save" only when needed -- and then up pops the next one.... . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talkcontribs) 12:08, 7 January 2010 (UTC) (if you choose to respond, please do so here.)

National Register of Historic Places listings in Hudson County, New Jersey

Pohlmann Hall] Since it seems like your department, would you mind starting a stub on Pohlmann Hall. Confusion seems to be about whether it's w/ or without the 's in listing. thanksDjflem (talk) 23:18, 17 February 2010 (UTC) ThanksDjflem (talk) 22:17, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Edit summaries

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Sorry, will try to do so in the future. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 15:13, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Mystic River Historic District, etc.

Hi, thanks for starting the Mystic River Historic District article and for just now adding a pic. Do you have any other pics? It would be great to knpw; pls mention at Talk:Mystic River Historic District if you have more. I notice you've been busy! I've started many stub articles for NRHP-listed places myself, and sometimes been criticized for doing so by editors who prefer for articles to be fairly substantial, from the get-go. I am happy to see you opening new articles, though, myself. I'd also be happy help develop a few at a time, like the Mystic River one. In Connecticut (but not New Jersey, i think), almost all the NRHP nomination documents are available on-line and can immediately be added to an article, so for CT ones at least it would be great if you could try to add them. You can search for NRHP documents that the National Register provides on-line for some states here, by the way. Hope you can further help with the Mystic River HD article. Also, you'd be very welcome to join wp:NRHP as a member by adding your name, and whether you're a member or not you are welcome to comment/ask questions at its Talk page wt:NRHP or to post announcement of your new NRHP articles or photos at its main page, in the new contributions section. Keep up the good work! --doncram (talk) 17:24, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Actually, i see now that you already joined wp:NRHP. Welcome, anyhow, from a fellow member. :) --doncram (talk) 19:46, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
No other pictures, at least for now. I agree with you about the stub articles, I believe that having a stub is better than having nothing at all. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 20:54, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Nice job

Thanks for all your additions to the Connecticut and New Jersey NRHPS! Swampyank (talk) 16:23, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Hudson County (and Bergen)

Hey Rhvanwinkle, Are you interested in starting a group where we can coordinate and discuss ways to improve articles for Hudson county? Even Bergen county, like edgewater etc... Theornamentalist (talk) 19:37, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

We started (pretty recently) putting together a task force for Hudson County related articles here. We could use help in these early stages! - Theornamentalist (talk) 15:28, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
I would be glad to lend a hand. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 16:09, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

HABS pix

I've noticed your work, especially on New Jersey, on NRHP articles. Keep up the good work. BTW, I'm from Philly and have been doing some South Jersey stuff. I also noticed at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/to do there are requests to clean up HABS pix on 4 or 5 NRHP lists in North Jersey. The main problem is trimming the black border. I don't think anybody around here has the right to tell folks how they have to do something - least of all me - but should you want an example of how I think folks want HABS pix uploaded, here's an example File:HABS Emlen Physick Estate.jpeg.

Notice the date, photographer, link to loc (not the photograph itself, but the intro slide just before it), the larger pix, and the {{Location|38|56|25| N|74|54|51|W}} 38°56′25″N 74°54′51″W

If you want any help on this please ask me; or I'd think User:Nyttend or User:Doncram might be willing to help. Or if you want to tell me to go mind my own business - I'm USUALLY pretty good about doing that too.

Any help appreciated. Smallbones (talk) 18:18, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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Hi, Rhvanwinkle, you uploaded a number of HABS pics before without including photographer name, date, other crediting info. Could you make an effort to correct these? In this one linked here, I am sure you didn't mean it, but you were claiming credit for the photo yourself. --doncram (talk) 19:05, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

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Pompton Plains

Don't take this the wrong way, but could you try to use citation templates like Template:cite news to add citations, not just flesh links? It makes citing sources so much easier.Mitch32(Growing up with Wikipedia: 1 edit at a time.) 17:12, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice. I'll try it out. Rhvanwinkle (talk) 17:14, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

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