User talk:Monegasque

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Hello Monegasque! Welcome to Wikipedia! Thank you for your contributions to this free encyclopedia. If you decide that you need help, check out Getting Help below, ask me on my talk page, or place {{helpme}} on your talk page and ask your question there. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date. Finally, please do your best to always fill in the edit summary field. Below are some useful links to facilitate your involvement. Happy editing! Ruhrfisch 00:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Source Question

Thanks for adding ethnicity facts to so many county articles - can you please provide citations for what you add? Thanks, Ruhrfisch 00:58, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

  • Thanks for the detailed reply. I saw your change to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and the Population section there has 8 or 9 references, which makes assumptions about your source somewhat confusing. I realize you didn't write it, but the sentence before your new one starts with "According to the US Census", but the ref cited at the end of the sentence before yours is to the MLA. When I looked at the reference to the Quick Facts here I didn't see the info you provided there (although I don't doubt that it is there). Long story short, it is always safe to cite (and please ask if you need help with citing). I would definitely cite the specific source (not just Census Bureau) when there is any doubt possible (as in Lancaster Co.). I have not looked at your other edits, it may well be some of them are are OK as they are simpler situations, but it would still be safer to cite. Thanks for adding this info, Ruhrfisch 03:43, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
    P.S. Please remember to sign your name on talk pages by clicking Image:Signature icon.png or using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.
I have the same question for Cumberland and Sagadahoc counties in Maine - the first few paragraphs of the Demographics section are on data from the federal census of 2000. However since I couldn't find this ancestry data in the 2000 federal census, I have moved the ancestry data to the end of the section pending confirmation. Verifiability is obviously key in editing demographic data. Please consider replying here. Thank you.--Chrisbak 20:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Thanks for your prompt reply - I found the ancestry data for the 2000 Census (census.gov) in the "SF 3" section. It is interesting data, however right now an editor could be absolutely baffled by where you got your percentages from. Therefore I would probably have said something like this: "Ancestry reported out of 125% (multiple answers were allowed) was: ..." followed by percentages from census.gov. Also I might have placed my edit with the information from the "Social characteristics" section, rather than the data from "General Characteristics". However ask any questions you have at Editor Assistance - simply click "Request Assistance" and someone will reply. The editors who reply there are very willing to help new editors.--Chrisbak 22:53, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
I tried to find the information using your description on User talk:Chrisbak but could not (I'm tired, so more dense). Since it is not trivial to find, I think you must cite the actual webpage you get it from (please). You can either do this as a link: [1] or using <ref> tages or even {{Cite web}} in side a ref. Otherwise there are going to be other editors who revert it or vandals will change it and no one will know where to look for the original data. Ruhrfisch 03:17, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
First I did verify the Census Bureau reported ancestry data by county. It's in the table "Social Characteristics" at the end, titled "Ancestry (single and multiple)". Since apparently multiple choices were allowed, the Census Bureau percentages - based on population - totaled more than 100%. That's the data I posted above that I would have used - without trying to be critical or "supervisory". Also this was what Moneqasque posted on my talk page about where the data came from - note it's apparently based on "first ancestry reported":
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This is how you´ll find the Census 2000 data for ancestry: Go to American Fact Finder. Select "Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF3) - Sample Data." Select "List all tables". Select "PCT 16 Ancestry (First Ancestry Reported)". That´s where the ancestry data comes from. I simply did the percentage math and placed in the article only those figures which were at least 5%.
_________________________ Posted by--Chrisbak 20:52, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Ambiguous links

Hello. Thank you for your recent edit to Aroostook County, Maine. Your edit included links to the pages American, English, and French, which are disambiguation pages. This type of page is intended to direct users to more specific topics. Ordinarily we try to avoid creating links to disambiguation pages, since it is preferable to link directly to the specific topic relevant to the context. You can help Wikipedia by revising the links you added to Aroostook County, Maine to refer directly to the most relevant topic. (This message was generated by an automatic process; if you believe it to be in error, please accept our apologies and report the error to help us improve this feature.) --Russ (talk) 06:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

Hi! This is a "me too" message :) for the stats on people of "Irish" ancestry. The link Irish also leads to a disambiguation page. I think it would be better to use [[Irish American|Irish]] instead. Keep up the good work though! Gil Gamesh 12:55, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Since I asked you nicely to be more careful about the creation of ambiguous links, I see that you have continued adding such links to dozens of pages. I am therefore asking you more strongly to correct your own links when editing pages. Your failure to do so creates more work for me and other editors, and is (at a minimum) impolite and inconsiderate. --Russ (talk) 21:15, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zimbabwe-related articles

Please stop adding so many links. Your intentions are good, but linking to the same article more than once per paragraph is excessive. Perspicacite 05:26, 26 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] thank you by imbert barrera wikification

have a nice day.

[edit] Census in Transnistria

Please let me know the source for detail data of 2004 Census in Transnistria at rayonal level.--MariusM 20:38, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

As a principle, Wikipedia is not a reliabhle source and can not refference itself. Data may be correct but I am curious to see if those were officially published. I was not able to find ethnicity data at rayonal level published officially by PMR authorities, despite the fact that I looked for them, I was wandering if PMR gave up at the secrecy on this issue.--MariusM 19:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Question about data added for Genesee County, New York

Hi,

Thanks for your contributon to the article here. I have been trying to put ref's in and am not finding the same numbers according to Census 2000. Can you help? Thanks. Ward20 (talk) 03:22, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

You can find those statistics in the Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data. Scroll down the list until you find "First ancestry reported" and then do the percentage math, as just the raw numbers are given. Monegasque (talk) 14:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Sourcing

I notice that you've added population statistics to Wisconsin county articles. Would you please add the source of these statistics to these and all articles? While they look reasonable, how can anyone trust that the statistics are valid without citing the reliable source? Royalbroil 14:07, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

They're from Census 2000, as the rest of the population statistics. The reason why I didn't mention it was because I thought it would look somewhat redundant to mention specifically that the statistics for reported ancestry were indeed from the same source as the rest of the population statistics. The statistics for race and Hispanic origin, after all, are quoted as such, without any specific mention of the fact that their source is Census 2000.Monegasque (talk) 14:25, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
More precisely, those statistics can be found in the Census 2000 Summary File 3 (SF 3) - Sample Data (First ancestry reported). I have only included reported ancestries that make up at least 5% of the population in a given area. Monegasque (talk) 14:36, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Wabash County, Illinois

I reverted the edit as it sounded suspicious. Also, if any unreferenced content on Wikipedia will be removed. You must cite information using <ref>source</ref> or a citation template. Any other content will be deleted. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 14:59, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

I had clearly mentioned the source, which is the same as for the other population statistics ( Census 2000 ). In any case it would definitely have been a good idea to ask me first about the figures before taking unilateral action exactly a minute after I had posted those figures. Deleting figures the very second you see them, without even taking the trouble of asking about them (or checking them) is way too rash for anybody's taste. Monegasque (talk) 15:14, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
Any content that is not referenced to a source using a ref tag can be deleted without any discussion per policy. If you have a problem with that, bring it up at WT:CITE, although it is a good policy that will not change. Southern Illinois SKYWARN (talk) 14:11, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Conflicts with data?

I see that plenty of other people have asked you about your "according to Census 2000" edits. I'm quite confused about your source for some of these: this table says that the population of Donnelly was 15.0% American, 13.1% English, 13.7% German, and 5.2% Italian, but your edit says that 20.2% were of American, 14.9% German, 14.0% English and 7.0% Italian ancestry according to Census 2000. And by the way: I'm rather busy currently; would you please reply on my talk page? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 23:49, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

Briefly: You get different results depending on whether you base your figures on Table PCT16 Ancestry (First ancestry reported) (in which case the result can better be compared with the percentage of those reporting Hispanic or Latino ancestry) or on Table PCT18 Ancestry (Total categories tallied) for people with one or more ancestry categories reported. I'll post a reply to your talk page as well. Monegasque (talk) 15:34, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Could you get me a link to the two pages, say, for Donnelly? Thanks! Nyttend (talk) 18:10, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Thanks much! Nyttend (talk) 22:23, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Román Baldorioty de Castro

How are you? I would like it very much if you would stop changing Román Baldorioty de Castro's surname. He was "not" known as Roman Baldorioty. I hope that you understand that he is a beloved historical figure in Puerto Rico and changing or shortening his surname does not make any sense. Thank you. Tony the Marine (talk) 00:40, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Census sources

Hi Monegasque, recently an IP address user changed all of the demographics data you added to Rhode Island's counties. The changes have been reverted, but since no inline reference was given I ahd no way to check the data. Would you please add refs to your census data additions? Thanks, Ruhrfisch ><>°° 14:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)