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Your GA nomination of Charles Morgan (businessman)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Edmund Randolph (disambiguation)

A tag has been placed on Edmund Randolph (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G6 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is an orphaned disambiguation page which either

• disambiguates only one extant Wikipedia page and whose title ends in "(disambiguation)" (i.e., there is a primary topic); or
• disambiguates no (zero) extant Wikipedia pages, regardless of its title.

Under the criteria for speedy deletion, such pages may be deleted at any time. Please see the disambiguation page guidelines for more information.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. Natureium (talk) 21:33, 26 June 2018 (UTC)

Five Points, Texas

There is no deletion discussion page about this article, what’s your proposal? Hhkohh (talk) 13:38, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

This is my first time nominating an article for deletion. The subject is not notable, and cites a single source from the Texas Handbook Online [1]. This series is normally reliable, but it only cites one source: ""Five Points," Ellis County TXGenWeb website (http://www.rootsweb.com/~txellis/ghost-towns/five.htm)." The THO article itself makes only a few claims for notability: that is was a "strategic stage coach locations" and a "gin mill" in the 1800s. Five Points is unincorporated and had as few as 10 residents as recently as 2000. A Google search led to some real estate and geneology web sites, and only the substantial articles about "Five Points" linked to similarly named places in Dallas and San Antonio. I do not see a path to notability.

I am re-reading the instructions at AdD. I apologize for not following all of the procedures. Sincerely, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:58, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

• There are at least three edits required to start an AfD discussion. It is best to use Twinkle to do them all for you. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 14:19, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the advice, but I should probably focus on trying to write good articles. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 14:34, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

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Your WP:RM/TR requests.

Hi, do you want to pursue these as requested moves or not? I don't think your original rationale holds enough weight for a move. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 19:06, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

@Frayae: I was concerned that the names I chose for the articles were against policy. If you are a page mover, I will assume that you understand the policy better than I do. I will drop both requests if that is your advice. Thanks, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 19:14, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

I don't think my understanding of the page move criteria is any better than the next person. My thoughts are based on the section of WP:CONCISE that says; Exceptions exist for biographical articles. For example, neither a given name nor a family name is usually omitted or abbreviated for conciseness. Thus Oprah Winfrey (not Oprah) and Jean-Paul Sartre (not J. P. Sartre). See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people). which would suggest that a move such as John Thomas Brady → John T. Brady should not be based solely on WP:CONCISE. Normally I would send the contested requests to the relevant talk pages as requested moves for people to comment and vote on, but in this situation I am not sure if you intended for that to happen or not. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 19:29, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

No, I am not willing to make contested moves. In both cases, other sources used Joseph R. Morris and John T. Brady, respectively. The old sources most often use J.R. Morris and J. T. Brady. The exception among the old sources was the biographical encyclopedia of Houston (1895), which used full names. Please drop both requests. Thanks, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 19:37, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

That is fine and I have closed both as not done. Should you wish to pursue a move later you can of course follow the instruction in Wikipedia:Requested moves. — Frayæ (Talk/Spjall) 19:49, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 19:53, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

Expanding an article containing multiple thin sources

I would like to expand the James A. Baker (born 1857), which is a well-sourced article. However, much of the material is spliced together from this sources containing either one or two paragraph of text about this James Addison Baker. (There are four wikipedia articles for persons named James Addison Baker). I would like to expand the article based on a full length biography of the subject from an academic publisher. Do I need to preserve all of the valid inline citations, and is it permissible to have a very long citation list? Thanks, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:28, 29 July 2018 (UTC)

If there is a valid source with useful information, it should not really be removed. If you have a new source that has the same information as an existing source... great? Having multiple sources demonstrates that the information is more likely to be correct.

It is perfectly acceptable to have a long citation list, though please keep in mind our guidelines regarding citation overkill (i.e. don't use five sources when one will work fine). In general it's best to have no more than three references for any given statement/paragraph.

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A barnstar for you!

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	For identifying small but critical discrepancies in population metrics that arose due to translation difficulties on San Miguel de Allende Rosguill (talk) 19:14, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

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Charles Morgan GAN

Sorry about the slow progress. I've had very little time to devote to Wikipedia lately, your GAN is still a priority but I just can't seem to find the time to get back to it right now. What I really need is probably just one good afternoon or evening when I can devote several hours to it at a stretch, but that is proving elusive right now. Hopefully sometime within the next few days. Regards, Gatoclass (talk) 12:34, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

@Gatoclass:: Thanks for the update. I see that you caught two of my mistakes and you have made some helpful copy edits. Other than the Nicaragua episode, does the main narrative hold together? I am going to read the Nicaragua section for the first time in two months. Cheers, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:47, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

I haven't had time to thoroughly fact check the article yet but the narrative generally speaking looks okay at this point I think. I'm planning to eventually overhaul the New York to Charleston section because that's a bit I have some knowledge about, the rest may only need a tweak here and there. Gatoclass (talk) 14:15, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Category:Burials at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston

A tag has been placed on Category:Burials at Glenwood Cemetery, Houston requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion.

If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. AusLondonder (talk) 10:19, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

Autopatrolled granted

Hi Oldsanfelipe, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the "autopatrolled" permission to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the autopatrolled right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Schwede66 23:53, 28 September 2018 (UTC)

anchors or redirects or whatever

Hey, I hope you don't mind my reverting your change to the Courtlandt Place, Houston article. You are right that section titles can be directly linked, and that anchors aren't always necessary. That's true, and I suppose I could have set up a redirect to, from one punctuation/spelling to the one used in the section title there, instead. But in my experience section titles get changed sometimes by random editors, while deliberately-put-in anchors are usually more stable (because the random editors don't see them and attack them, and because obviously someone has gone through trouble to set up the anchor so it is probable that there is at least one incoming link relying upon it, so most editors will leave it alone). This was for the house named "W. T. Carter, Jr. House", or variations. I honestly don't care myself, but some others feel strongly and would render it variously as:

1. W. T. Carter, Jr. House
2. W.T. Carter, Jr. House
3. W. T. Carter, Jr., House
4. W.T. Carter, Jr., House
5. W. T. Carter Jr. House
6. W.T. Carter Jr. House

Maybe I would prefer number 5 out of those. Mainly I just want the incoming link (from Birdsall Briscoe article) to work and using an anchor should ensure that. Hope you don't mind, again, and hope this long-ish explanation is not too much either. Keep up your good work editing! --Doncram (talk) 13:28, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

@Doncram: What you say makes sense and I will take it under advisement. We want the links to work! I think the MOS would imply the correct version would be without a comma but we can't assume that editors generally understand all of the finer points of the MOS. You may be correct about the lack of space between the period in the second initial. I appreciate the explanation, and I think the length was necessitated by the content. This is one of the strengths of Wikipedia: you raised an issue that I had not considered. On another note, a while back I took some photographs at Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Texas), and I found a family plot for the Briscoes. I did not see a marker for Birdsall Briscoe. I created the article for Adele Briscoe Looscan and photographed the marker. I don't know their exact relations, but they are both descendants of John Richardson Harris, the namesake of Harris County, Texas. Cheers, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 14:35, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

Interesting. Okay about use of pipelinks vs. explicit redirects, I and some others prefer for NRHP list-articles to always link out to the proper NRHP name for a place, and then it is okay if there is a redirect to coverage at a different name or at a subsection somewhere. Like for Judson Taylor House, I prefer for that to be the link in the list-article, and there can be a redirect to "Courtlandt Place, Houston#Judson Taylor House" as there is now. Rather than trying to find every place that tries to link to it, and putting pipeline "Courtlandt Place, Houston#Judson Taylor House" in place instead. I think this is more robust. Not a big deal. --Doncram (talk) 18:48, 17 October 2018 (UTC)

@Doncram:I made some copy edits at Courtlandt Place, Houston to make the section titles conform to the names given for the properties at National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris County, Texas. However, I am unclear about the point you are making in your last reply because I think I just broke the link for the Judson Taylor House (Judson L. Taylor on the list-page). I know I must seem dense here, but my understanding of some of the Wikipedia terms is inexact. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 09:45, 18 October 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for this edit connecting the downtown Houston list to an existing article (which I happened to have created, so the new edit showed up in my watchlist), in which you edited the NRHP list-article directly, just changing spacing in the link to an article. Another way to go would be to create a redirect from the redlink in the NRHP list-article (which could be asserted to be the "official" version of name), to the actual article name. This is sort of the point I was making above. If a redirect is created, then it is more certain that any new usages of the "official" name, e.g. mention in a List of fire stations or any other list-article, will be linked to the actual article. This is a somewhat minor/subtle point. Thank you again for that edit, which did indeed create the needed link from list-article to existing article. --Doncram (talk) 19:02, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Merge Crawford Boxes

What do you think, @73.32.38.72:? Oldsanfelipe (talk) 16:08, 9 November 2018 (UTC)

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Idea with WikiProject Houston membership list: designating inactive members

I notice that some WikiProjects have gone to messaging people on the member list and moving them to an inactive column if they don't respond. This might be a good idea with WikiProject Houston WhisperToMe (talk) 09:45, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Talk:Charles Morgan (businessman)/GA1

Oldsanfelipe, I wanted to let you know that a new reviewer has taken over this review, and has just today posted a new set of queries. You can expect that this reviewer will be more responsive, and is looking to complete the review process in a timely manner. Thank you for your patience, and I hope you can see this process to a proper conclusion, which I would imagine be the article being listed as a Good Article. BlueMoonset (talk) 21:48, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

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Tal's Hill Merger Proposal

I'm so sorry to bother you with this, but Robert McClenon has said that we must have another merger proposal discussion on merging Tal's Hill into Minute Maid Park, so if you don't mind, could you please weigh in on the new discussion as to where you support or oppose such a merger? 2600:1700:D6E0:65E0:8400:D781:3985:AB45 (talk) 12:21, 10 June 2019 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Charles Morgan (businessman)

The article Charles Morgan (businessman) you nominated as a good article has failed ; see Talk:Charles Morgan (businessman) for reasons why the nomination failed. If or when these points have been taken care of, you may apply for a new nomination of the article. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of Gatoclass -- Gatoclass (talk) 10:02, 20 June 2019 (UTC)