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Coordinates of Fiberglas Tower

With this edit back in 2012, you added coordinates to Fiberglas Tower. I've just now discovered that they were way off and corrected them. I'm not sure what could have caused that error. Can you see if you know, and if so, correct any others that you may have added the same error to? Thanks, Jackmcbarn (talk) 22:22, 18 July 2015 (UTC)

Jackmcbarn, the incorrect coordinates, 39°3′3″N 87°33′53″W / 39.05083°N 87.56472°W / 39.05083; -87.56472, are those of the National Register-listed Union Christian College in Merom, Indiana. Presumably I had that page open, copy/pasted the infobox, and changed all the information in the parameters, except for overlooking the coord change. A member of WP:NRHP maintains an infobox generator, which is highly useful when you're writing a new article or expanding an existing one, but it's only useful when the property was NR-listed before the National Park Service last updated the database from which the infobox generator is drawn. With newly listed properties, like the Fiberglas Tower, you've got to fill it out manually or copy/paste from somewhere else. Nyttend (talk) 02:17, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

You might be interested

in Cold Spring Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Smallbones_(smalltalk) 21:01, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

Your USPS question answered

Nyttend, is my answer to your Reference Desk question question what you were looking for? I would like to see the authoritative reference incorporated in an article or two and will do so myself if you are no longer interested. Misplaced Pages:Reference_desk/Humanities#In-store_USPS -- Paulscrawl (talk) 06:38, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

It is, and thank you; I'm in the middle of drafting a community post office article. Nyttend (talk) 12:45, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Excellent. I look forward to your clarifications of a confusing welter of terms. Paulscrawl (talk) 21:26, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

Paulscrawl, see the new Community post office page. It's too basic to be hugely useful, but hopefully it will be a good introduction. I ignored the second link you provided because while it indeed makes good background reading as you said, it doesn't come from an authoritative source. I just realised that I forgot to mention CPOs on university campuses, so I'll get that later after I step out. Nyttend (talk) 14:19, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Very good; well referenced. Love the moose! -- Paulscrawl (talk) 18:25, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Thanks! It took a long time to find the moose, trolling through lots of Commons categories fruitlessly; I'd originally wanted a photo of the post office at some university, but to my surprise I couldn't find any images of a university post office. Nyttend (talk) 18:36, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Green, Ohio

Can you please explain this edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/search/?title=Green%2C_Ohio&type=revision&diff=672431062&oldid=672431022 How is track and field redundant? I feel as though it provides brief, but adequate information in the type of events in which Croghan participated. Your reply is appreciated. Thanks π♂101 (talk) 19:17, 21 July 2015 (UTC)

I found out that Orange Suede Sofa undid the edit after I wrote a reply to you on my talk page. I'll let you two resolve this, if you still care about the minor squabble. Thanks π♂101 (talk) 20:51, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

Complaint on Reddit about Misplaced Pages

I noticed a complaint on Reddit:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/3e52ie/i_found_an_editor_who_seems_to_be_pushing_an/
• List of law enforcement agencies in Ohio (you might want to examine and watch this article)
• Please see comments at User_talk:PaulinSaudi. Thanks!

• Sbmeirow • Talk • 13:55, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

PA Muni

Heading up to finish Allegheny County today. Generic1139 (talk) 13:00, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

Added to the list. I didn't know you have left the area. Generic1139 (talk) 13:40, 25 July 2015 (UTC)

I"ll have the rest of Butler uploaded in a few hours, don't bother with a map update. Generic1139 (talk) 01:32, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

"What's going on there?"

I'm not quite sure, actually. Perhaps you'd care to explain. I know only that you arrived at Template:In the news and replaced our newly implemented format with a malformed approximation of the old one. —David Levy 14:00, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

So it's a new consensus format? I assumed that it had gotten updated by someone who wasn't familiar with the Main Page's normal working and added a caption as in an article, instead of the Main Page standard of (pictured). People are always so picky about where the italics go (italicise the parentheses, don't italicise the parentheses), and I can't remember, so I just skip them entirely and wait for someone else to add them. Nyttend (talk) 14:07, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

We've adopted the new format at ITN, DYK and OTD (along with FTFA and FTFL, when appropriate). As with any and every significant change, the underlying consensus has been questioned. In particular, some editors didn't regard the removal of the (pictured) notation (all-italic, incidentally) as an intrinsic element. There appears to be a fair amount of support for (and little opposition to) its continued inclusion, so it's been tentatively revived (while retaining the caption). —David Levy 14:21, 28 July 2015 (UTC)

Help me understand the difference

You tagged my photo of a roadside sign as a copyvio. I'm trying to understand the difference between mine and this photo. Mine is paid for by tax dollars, placed by a government entity. The other one is paid for by private funds and placed by a private organization. In both cases, the signs are the focal point of the picture. Can you help me understand the difference? Niteshift36 (talk) 15:54, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

• Washington & Jefferson College is, in fact, a copyrighted name of the school. Length alone shouldn't really be the issue. All the sign does is reproduce a government document. This would be no different than me taking a photo of any other public record document. The fact that this one was actually meant to be seen by as many people as possible (which is why the put it 3 feet off of a historic road) tends to make me question whether the state asserts a copyright over it. Niteshift36 (talk) 12:30, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

• Commons:Template:PD-text says:"Facts, data, and unoriginal information which is common property without sufficiently creative authorship in a general typeface or basic handwriting, and simple geometric shapes are not protected by copyright." Why wouldn't this apply? The sign is merely reciting facts about events that happened 200 years prior in a fairly matter of fact way. There wasn't much in the way of creativity involved, just 3 sentences of facts and data in a basic typeface. Niteshift36 (talk) 12:36, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

• I misspoke when I said copyright and was thinking trademark. That said, you could point something out without the attitude you've been giving me since the first response. I'm not brand new and I am actually asking questions to help understand the issue. Your responses have dripped with condescension. Your snippy reply about "reproduce a book" is not what I said. Obviously a book would have creativity involved. 3 sentences of mainly facts and dates, not so much. And your summary that it's about being able to say such and such happened seems off base when you consider it also talks about "basic typeface" or handwriting. So riddle me this: If the local govt. tapes a paper to my door, telling me that a water main broke and I should boil water for the next 24 hours, going on to tell me why I should boil water, would that be copyrighted? Niteshift36 (talk) 12:49, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

• Well, I guess that attitude just isn't going to disappear. Love the last part about how I opened myself up to a lawsuit for taking a picture of a street sign produced by tax dollars. I'll wait here for that....feel free to report me to the commonwealth. I'm sure they'll jump right on that one.) Niteshift36 (talk) 13:22, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

• BTW, this article , posted on the PA govt website, written by employees of the commission, actually promotes 2 websites that encourage people to photograph the markers and posting them online. In any case, I've emailed them to ask directly about using the photo on Misplaced Pages. Niteshift36 (talk) 13:35, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Steiger RfC

Good block. Incidentally, can you do something about this? Cassianto 20:05, 29 July 2015 (UTC)

My bad

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