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John F. Felt

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Admittedly he's not a major architect, he did design one building which is the landmark for Northwest Missouri State University. I added photo and references. Americasroof 01:33, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Ok, not sure if that is enough to make him notable, but it least the article is referenced now. Jeepday (talk) 13:27, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Tammy Faye

Reply to your comment on my talk page. Advance apologies. Unschool 23:04, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Reply to your comment about the recent death tag on my talk page. You've made me think. Unschool 01:58, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

re: John Watts de Peyster

Absolutely! I have to say my collection of rare books from that period that I've inherited are a great help in piecing obscure articles like this together. I made a similar article about another obscure General named Ruloff Brinkerhoff after seeing a snippet about him. I've added the de Peyster piece to the Template talk:Did you know (which I didn't know existed until a week or two ago), perhaps if you like the article you could recommend it further, or suggest a different version. It links to Saratoga, the Boot Monument, the Park, and the Benedict Arnold articles. Thanks again for the compliment. MrPrada 03:28, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Midwest Airlines cookie

I didn't remove the section, I just changed ATA to AirTran...Sox23 02:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

It was sort of a knee jerk reaction to the edit summary beginning "rv." Thanks! Americasroof 02:12, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

John Watts de Peyster

On 3 August, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article John Watts de Peyster, 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.

FLW pic

Hello. I removed your picture of the Charles L. Manson House in Wisconsin from the Prairie School article. My reasoning is that it is a 1938 work by Frank Lloyd Wright, which is well past his primary Prairie period. Just by glancing at the house I would say it is more of Wright's later period Usonian aesthetic than it is Prairie. If you can provide a source that says that house is Prairie style then please add the image back, otherwise it shouldn't be added.IvoShandor 04:38, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. That's what I get for leaping to the conclusion that everything Wright did was Prairie School. Thanks again! Americasroof

Wausau residents/natives

The Wausau, Wisconsin article already has a list of natives. Many of the names are redlinks. You might want to consider editting the existing list and adding the names from the section you created. There are duplicates. -Acjelen 20:53, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for being polite about it. I nuked my section and reorganized the article a little since the section was buried earlier.Americasroof 21:57, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Americas roof web page

I had a look at your webpage. It's quite interesting. Cheers, Ozdaren 02:41, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks! Americasroof 11:21, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Visciousness?

What exactly are you referring to with this edit summary? Please assume good faith. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 03:53, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I have generally avoided editing controversial topics. The Midwest articles which I thought would be relatively straight forward sure seem to be getting hit with sock puppets and hidden agenda over the airtran merger. It was a topic I was not expecting to find that that kind of editing. Americasroof 10:59, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Not sure how that violates AGF, if a debate is vicious, it is, nothing can be done about that, might want to avoid such commentary in edit summaries; apparently. IvoShandor 11:16, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

I consider it a lack of good faith that my edit is presumed to be part of some "vicious debate" replete with "sock puppets" and "hidden agendas". I'm trying to create an encyclopedia. No more, no less. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 14:53, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You're taking this way, way, way too personally. I never directed this at you. My exact summary was: putting cookie image back in - boy this debate is one of the most vicious I've ever seen My comment was directed to passionate edit changes in an article that by most standards should be noncontroversial. I wish I hadn't put that in the summary because that merely stirred the pot of an already boiling article. The worst offender in all this is an anonymous user. You're going to have to accept a good faith effort on my part too. Americasroof 15:13, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

You appeared to be reverting my edit, which made it reasonable to think your edit summary was directed at (or at least included) me. No worry, I'm not taking it personal. --ZimZalaBim ^talk 16:05, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Brooklyn Tornado

Hi Americasroof! I agree that the exact limits of the path of the tornado are not clear. It looks like there might have been some damage in Ditmas Park. But after reading various sources, it is pretty clear to me that the last area to have been seriously hit before the storm dissipated was Kensington, bordering on Prospect Park South. One problem is that the neighborhood names are so fluid and indistinct. In a larger sense and historically, these are all part of Flatbush. The Post is clearly wrong if it mentioned Ocean Avenue, which is much farther east. That much I can say for certain. The Wikipedia article Kensington shows clearly that the storm had a noticeable impact on that neighborhood. Ditmas Park doesn't even mention it. The Kensington blog http://kensingtonbrooklyn.blogspot.com/ mentions plans by the city to replace trees on Ocean Parkway. Nothing about Ocean Avenue. The more I think about this, the more I realize that the tornado really ended in Prospect Park South, so I am going to add that. See also this Brooklyn Eagle article: http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=14907 I too would like to make the Brooklyn-tornado article as accurate as possible. I am a lifelong Brooklynite and live a couple of miles from the path of the tornado. I never thought something like this would hit so close, so I have a special interest in it! Regards --Alan W 04:17, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

OK, I found a citation. The National Weather service says it's Ocean Parkway. (And everything else I've seen points to Ocean Parkway, not Ocean Avenue. The Post simply made a mistake. It's pretty common to confuse the two streets). Whoops! I just noticed that the National Weather service itself made the mistake! The Post was just following them. They don't say Ocean Parkway, they say Ocean Avenue! But some local resident knew better, and questioned it in the Kensington blog. Ocean Avenue is almost a mile further east, and there are no reports of the storm having gone that far. --Alan W 04:35, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

The best citation was right in front of our eyes: the National Weather Service revised its statement, correcting the error, and that statement was cited in the first note in this very Brooklyn-tornado article. I have now just linked to that reference. I knew it couldn't have been Ocean Avenue. But of course in Wikipedia we have to back up claims with sources. --Alan W 04:56, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Many thanks for going the extra mile. I thought you were probably right! Americasroof 15:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

That mile was a hard slog! It should have been easier to confirm what we both "knew" must be right. But my persistence paid off. And, as a Missourian, you were well within your rights to say, "Show me!" :-) --Alan W 02:22, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Again wow! Thanks! Americasroof 22:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Email

You have some from me. IvoShandor 06:51, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I responded. Americasroof 15:14, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

Hamptons weekend

This weekend. I'll be going to Montauk by automobile Saturday and returning to Hell's Kitchen Monday. Jim.henderson 20:44, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Jim send me an email. Americasroof 14:01, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

This time for sure. Out by car Saturday afternoon. Return probably by car, Sunday night or Monday morning. Jim.henderson 21:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Harry S. Truman

There is a discussion that you might want to weigh in on, Talk:Harry_S._Truman#The_.22Roswell_Incident.22, thanks. WikiDon 05:38, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

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push pin map for New York

FYI:

User:Detroiterbot is fulfilling your request made at Infobox Settlement. —MJCdetroit 05:07, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much! Americasroof 10:30, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

I did the best I could but I could only find a list for the cities that only had 55 cities on it. Villages and towns were covered pretty well. See Detroiterbot's contribs. If you have a better list of cities in New York, I'll run the bot again. —MJCdetroit 17:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks again. I hope you did not do all 55 by hand. Your edits are helpful! When I made the request I was aiming hope could hit all the New York State pages using the template. There has to be at least a thousand Census Designated Places in New York. Most of them do not have a map. Thanks again! Americasroof 15:52, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Military history (new task force)

Hi Americasroof. This is just to inform you that a new task force (American Revolutionary War task force) has just been created. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up®} 13:40, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

thanks

Hello, thanks for reverting Sayville, New York to the last good version as seen here. I wasn't paying attention to what other vandalism had been done. Thanks for your vigilance. --Kyoko 23:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. I probably should have caught it too with all the red links. Thanks again. Americasroof 00:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Ronald S. Baron (DYK nom)

Hi. I've nominated Ronald S. Baron, an article you worked on, for consideration to appear on the Main Page as part of Wikipedia:Did you know. You can see the hook for the article at Template talk:Did you know#Articles created on November 17, where you can improve it if you see fit. — Komusou ^talk @ 20:10, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you for letting me know! I assume from the black line it didn't make it. Thanks again! Americasroof (talk) 02:52, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

On November 23, 2007, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Ronald S. Baron, 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.

Blnguyen (bananabucket) 05:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Thank you so much! You made my day! I added a detail in the article about the sale which is almost as noteworthy as the price itself. Thanks for spurring me to do that! Americasroof (talk) 12:23, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: "black line": Actually it did, as you can see above ;-) I reckon you went to the DYK Suggestions page, did a CTRL F on your article's name, and only found a black strikeout line:

• The bottom sections of the DYK Suggestions page has a list of "new articles" detected by a bot. There, volunteers can go fishing for good articles to nominate in the actual Suggestions sections at the top. (Of course, articles creators are encouraged to self-nominate their new articles to DYK, but new editors don't know DYK and thus the bot's list helps detect their articles.) Once someone has nominated an article from the bot's list, it is good form to strike it out with a "nom" mention, to avoid other editors wasting time reviewing articles already nominated.
• Also, nominated articles in the Suggestions pool, after inspection and possible discussion, can be selected by a DYK admin and moved from the "Suggestions" page to the "Next Update" plate, then posted to the Main Page. I reckon your article was either at "Next update" or Main Page when you looked for it, thus you couldn't find it on the Suggestions page: it was already in the pipeline. Hope that clears it. — Komusou ^talk @ 19:55, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Again many many thanks and special thanks for the extended explanation of DYK. Americasroof (talk) 22:56, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

NY maps

Great job with New York maps. They've been neglected for a very long time and yours are very good. There are a huge number of tiny villages and towns in New York, so I hope you'll continue until they're finished. Badagnani (talk) 03:47, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the encouraging words. The infobox has really helped since it supports pushpins and detroitbot was nice enough to grant my request to crawl New York pages with the pushpins. My local maps come the U.S. Census reference maps. I wish we could put them on all entries. I finished Suffolk County tonight and will work on Nassau next. Then I will probably retire from mapping New York other than some one offs. There's some very good mapmakers on wikipedia but I think they are intimidated by New York's huge numbers and the fact there are a lot of unincorporated areas. THanks again. Americasroof (talk) 04:17, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes, great job with the maps in Suffolk County, New York! Thank you. I know you named the U.S. Census as the sources, but I was wondering if you could give a specific link or details about how I can find more details about those maps. I was looking at maps of Northport, New York and East Northport, New York in particular and find some of those borders a little odd, in that large areas that are "known" to be part of each town are not included. I don't want to bog you down with details that probably don't concern you but just as one example of why I would like to investigate further is that the Nortport Power Station which has hundreds of credible citations to it being located within the town of Northport, is not within the boundaries of the Northport map. (Here's just one citation to a formal DEC application listing it's address as Northport.) I fully understand that these map differences did not originate from you since the maps came from the Census Bureau, and I greatly appreciate how these maps definitely improve those articles, but I would like to check out more details on the sources of those borders. Thanks. --Fife Club (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Here’s the direct link to Northport Then click on the reference map (it can’t be directly linked since I believe it is dynamically generated).

You can find all the maps from the search box. The home page of the census is http://www.census.gov/

If you search there it gives you an overview of the location. You have to click on the “Fact Sheet” to get to the screen with the reference map. I really wish there was someway we could automatically update all those maps because they are very useful. Americasroof (talk) 16:11, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

BTW as caveats the maps strictly reflect where the population statistics came from and have nothing to do with mailing addresses. The maps should accurately reflect incorporated village boundaries. However since the hamlets (CDP) have no legal standing those boundaries can be set somewhat arbitrarily by the census.16:35, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for all of your help, both here and for all that work you've been doing to improve articles by adding maps. --Fife Club (talk) 18:43, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Metoac

I am afraid the article stil does not alleviate any confusion over this term. If I understand correctly, the term itself has no lingustic legitimacy,and is jsut another concoction. An article on Native American place names on Long Island would be a much better contribution than "Metoac". The eastern end of Long Ilsand was not the same people as the western end, and so the relationship among the names is geographic proximity, not lingusitic or cultural, which Metoac as a concept and the current article seems to purport. If any article on Metoac were to be included, it should probably be written along the line of another article ona a fraud: Walam Olum - although that has its problems as well. I am going to suggest the article be removed again. Sorry. Shoreranger (talk) 18:23, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

There are lots of references and even Strong's writings lump them together as culturally the same unit. The title of the article could be changed to "History of Native American Tribes on Long Island" or some such. The article can be used to debunk. It should be noted again that two tribes have formal state recognition. Americasroof (talk) 18:37, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

P.S. I am o.k. if the title got changed to "Native American place names on Long Island." I appreciate your passion on the issue. Americasroof (talk) 18:48, 6 December 2007 (UTC)

Giving thanks where thanks is due

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		See your edits everywhere, but especially in Missouri related topics where I mostly work. Grey Wanderer | Talk 21:33, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks Grey! You really made my day! Likewise I appreciate your efforts! Americasroof (talk) 03:02, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

Leslie Lynch King, Sr.

No problem! Zagalejo^^^ 21:21, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

My pleasure! It's good to find people who actually want to create content, rather than destroy it. If you need help with anything else, just let me know! Zagalejo^^^ 08:21, 27 December 2007 (UTC)