User talk:JohnPomeranz

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[edit] Inchmahome Priory

Thanks for adding the photo to Inchmahome Priory. I have been trying to source a decent freely available image for this article for ages, without success !! Cheers. --Cactus.man ✍ 17:44, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Glad to help. My wife (the actual photographer, who OK'd the use and public licensing) and I had a great visit to Scotland last summer, and I'm using some of our photos and the literature we collected to add to Wikipedia's Scottish articles. (See, e.g. Cawdor Castle, Balloch Castle, and Balloch Country Park.) I'm working my way through our itinerary as I have the time, but if there are other Scottish historical tourist sites for which you're seeking images, let me know, and I'll see if we can oblige. --JohnPomeranz 17:54, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, great work on these articles. I have taken the liberty of adding notice of your article contributions and image uploads to Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New articles and Wikipedia:Scottish Wikipedians' notice board/New images. Feel free to add any further relevant things you do there to keep us up to date. As for image requests, all I have at the moment is anything related to the architect Robert Lorimer, in particular photographs of the chapel for the Knights of the Thistle in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. I know it's a long shot, but hey, you never know. Best wishes. --Cactus.man ✍ 18:51, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
Alas, no help on the Lorimer sites. Sorry and good luck. (But I do appreciate having ANOTHER excuse to want to visit Scotland again...not that I needed any more.) Thanks also for the kind words and the notice board pointers. I never would have known that those pages existed! Best wishes! --JohnPomeranz 19:13, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re:Virginia-geo-stub

You got it exactly right :) Geo-stubs are used for geographical locations - mountains, hills, towns, cities. Individual buildings get struct-stub instead, for two reasons. The more obvious reason is that they tend to be edited by editors with a different area of interest - someone who knows about historic houses is not necessarily going to know about geography and vice versa. The other reason's more to do with the way stub categories are arranged - geo-stubs are split up by nation and subnational region (like Virginia-geo-stub), structures are split by country and by type of structure (so we have US-stadium-stub, for instance). It's likely that we'll eventually get US-mansion-stub or similar, which this article would get if it's still a stub then. Mind you, I see the point about local editors - if there was a separate virginia-stub then it would have been double stubbed with that, but we currently only have separate state stubs where theres a WikiProject working on that state's articles. As to the boundary of what is or isn't "geographic enough" for a geo-stub, towns, villages and cities all count, as do political divisions. Ranches and farms would also get geo-stub. Canals get geo-stub, although that's a bit of an anomaly. It's basically individual structures that don't - although there are a couple of grey areas - reservoirs tend to get geo-stub but dams get struct-stub, for instance, so it sometimes depends on the way the article is written. Grutness...wha? 00:57, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Scottish Castles

Hi John. By chance, I just saw your query on User:Topbanana's talk page about location maps for castles. There is now a Scottish Castles Wikiproject, which is aiming to improve articles in this area. One of the things we have been discussing is adding a location map to every castle page: an example of the proposed map image can be seen on the Kilmory Castle page. Please feel free to add your comments on the project discussion page. Thanks, ::Supergolden:: 13:28, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arlington County, Virginia

Hey John, I wanted to let you know that I have nominated Arlington County, Virginia as a candidate for US Collaboration of the Week. The article is in need of much help and with a little group effort, it could be brought to Featured Article status! I brought this to your attention as I have seen you have contributed to the article in the recent past and also hail from Arlington. Please cast your vote with your signature at the US Collaboration of the Week page under Arlington County, Virginia. --Caponer 02:04, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arlington House CAMDEN LONDON UK

Hi John, Thanks for your comment, as far as I can make out (other than the same name) your link to US Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial has no direct link or usefulness to the details of Arlington House, a hostel for the homeless in Camden Town, London, UK[1].

If however I’m wrong then please state in the link clearly your reason for including it Thanks Chrisgo 10:48, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Hi John. Chris is a fairly new editor and was unclear on the function of disambiguation pages. I've explained on his talk page - hopefully my explanation makes sense! I've reverted to the clean dab page as set up by Xhin. Cheers, Tonywalton  | Talk 12:03, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
Thanks to both you, Tony, and Chris for your help with the Arlington House DAB page. See my more detailed comments on Chris' talk page. --JohnPomeranz 16:19, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
No problem. However I only drink American beer if it's from a microbrewery ;-) Tonywalton  | Talk 16:31, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] DC Meetup notice

Greetings. There is going to be a Washington DC Wikipedia meetup on next Saturday, July 21st at 5pm in DC. Since you are listed in Category:Wikipedians_in_Virginia, I thought I'd invite you to come. I'm sorry about the short notice for the meeting. Hopefully we'll do somewhat better in that regard next time. If you can't come but want to make sure that you are informed of future meetings be sure to list yourself under "but let me know about future events", and if you don't want to get any future direct notices \(like this one\), you can list yourself under "I'm not interested in attending any others either" on the DC meetup page.--Gmaxwell 22:08, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DC meetup #3

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[edit] DC meetup #3

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[edit] DC Meetup on May 17th

Your help is needed in planning Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4! Any comments or suggestions you have are greatly appreciated. The Placebo Effect (talk) 19:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Storm King Mountain

Yes, I think I jumped the gun a little. Half-way through creating the one for the South Canyon Fire...I decided to check the USGS website, and there are TWO in Colorado. I thought about backing up, but didn't. The New York one should be moved. The USGS site says that there are 5 SKM in the U.S.:

  • Storm King Mountain (Saguache) - Saguache County, CO 375659N 1062451W 10,850ft Lookout Mountain
  • Storm King Mountain (Garfield) - Garfield County, CO 393522N 1072403W 8,776 Storm King Mountain
  • Storm King Mountain (Ferry) - Ferry County, WA 484305N 1184805W 5,377 Storm King Mountain
  • Storm King Mountain (Lewis) - Lewis County, WA 463854N 1220930W 4,741 Mineral
  • Storm King Mountain (New York) - Orange County, NY 412558N 0735941W 1,348 West Point

So, I guess I should fix it. These three should be made into disambiguation pages:

PHOTOS would be great!

WikiDon (talk) 00:23, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Meetup/DC 4

Any comments you have about location would be appreciated. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 20:40, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

John: thanks again for the appetizers. Good to meet you. Keep in touch.--FeanorStar7 (talk) 01:36, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 5/24 DYK

Updated DYK query On 24 May 2008, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Section of Painting and Sculpture , which you created or substantially expanded. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

--Bedford Pray 01:41, 24 May 2008 (UTC)