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I got Tomasak's 2008 biography of Colonel R. Bruce Ricketts and as a result have added about 4 kB of prose to the Clemuel Ricketts Mansion article - dif. I am asking the FAC and PR reviewers to please take a second look at the Clemuel Ricketts Mansion article and make sure it still reads smoothly and clearly. If you find problems, please raise them on the article's talk page. Thanks in advance, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 04:28, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

• Thanks for reading the article and the feedback - I do not have a DeLorean time machine, but I think any vehicle that can make it to the only town in Pennsylvania and its newspaper archives might do the trick. WIll reply on the tlak page in a bit, Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:41, 2 July 2010 (UTC)

Nice work on expanding St. Michael's Protestant Episcopal Church, Parish House and Rectory from a stub. I notice it is not in the article, but the NRHP nomination form usually is a good source as well.

As the article name is fairly long, I wonder if moving it to a shorter one has ever been proposed (maybe just St. Michael's Episcopal Church (Birdsboro, Pennsylvania). ​​​​​​​​ Niagara ​​ ^{Don't give up the ship} 00:43, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thank you the compliments, and thank you for sending the NRHP nomination form. It was written by an old friend. I posted it.

I agree that the title is long. I'll ask Swampyankee, who originated the page, if he wants to shorten it. BoringHistoryGuy ( talk) 12:05, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for reviewing this article. I have done everything you suggested except the conversion on tons (see the review) and the picture of the station, which I am hoping to work on. I agreed with all of your suggestions, and if you have any more, or wish to comment on this articles WP:FAC, as I am going to submit it, then please do. -- Jack ?! 02:08, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for suggesting Pinckney State Recreation Area. I would love to expand it to add to my list. But I've run into a problem in Michigan and several other states. There is very little information on their official websites. Next to nothing as a matter of fact. I was able to work around this with Fort Defiance State Park in Iowa by finding a ton of information about the park from a local newspaper. I will have to do the same for the state park I cover in Michigan. I will take a google news look now. If you have any information or links, by all means please share. Dincher ( talk) 00:50, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

I would love you to email me the info. I am not sure if I have email enabled on here. If not you could get it from Ruhrfisch who has it. That is if you have his email. Otherwise I guess I would just send it to you in a message on here. Dincher ( talk) 02:30, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

Just sent you an email. Have a good night off to walk the dog, then sleep. Dincher ( talk) 02:49, 21 July 2010 (UTC)

I plan on expanding Pinckney tonight or Tuesday night. Dincher ( talk) 22:51, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Expanded and nominated. Do you have the url link for the Chicago Sun-Times article? If you do please add it to ref five in the article and please feel free to add to it if you want. I could change the nomination to the both of us. Dincher ( talk) 00:41, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

add all that you want. I am sure that there is more information out there! Thanks for suggesting it. I really enjoyed working on the history section. Dincher ( talk) 04:43, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

It doesn't look like you got a DYK notice for Pinckney. I thought I had included in the nomination. Dincher ( talk) 00:59, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

On August 7, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pinckney State Recreation Area, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

It was. It's hard to beat a trip to Knoebels Grove. Dincher ( talk) 01:22, 11 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Niagara. I judged it beneficial to create a stub article for Keith House-Washington's Headquarters in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, just now, to help reduce some possible confusion. See this discussion at User talk:Crazypaco. Perhaps you could improve the article, and also contribute in resolving possible issues with the new lists of historic markers? -- doncram ( talk) 13:52, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for developing that. About Pennsylvania sites in Washington Cunty or anywhere, it would seem helpful to have the wp:NRHPhelp system describe how to actually get to NRHP documents. I tried for a while, again, just now, to get the PA Ask whatever system to work for me, but fail to find my way to actuaal documents. I was trying to improve the Bailey Covered Bridge article. Can you advise me directly, or perhaps better, edit the Pennsylvania section of the wp:NRHPhelp page. I left some partial instructions there, but leave more questions open than answered. Note, I am hoping for instructions comparable to those i composed for the New York State system, which is also wonky. Eventually, the tips provided for the NYS system have been developed far enough that they seem to work well enough to help any new user find their way through. -- doncram ( talk) 18:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your tips. I had been stuck at the last step, where the list of matches on a search are presented, and it seemed to be asking for you to click on the checkmark for the one(s) you want. That only brings up a map then. I needed to click or doubleclick on the entry itself. Your instructions made the difference for me. I just edited those into wp:NRHPhelp (feel free to further edit that). They get me all the way to a scanned document. Now, the next step, what to do about advising on how to form a suitable Pennsylvania-specific reference? The example references now in the wp:NRHPhelp are for old ARCH system entries, and are references composed by Ruhrfisch. Not sure how to form a proper reference for the Bailey Covered Bridge article, now. Unfortunately the scanned document available from CRGIS is a jumble, including selected pages from an MPS on covered bridges in two counties, and some unlabelled / untitled stuff. It's a pretty sorry batch. For NYS NRHP listings that were covered in an MPS, usually the NYS documnent includes a new cover page and the relevant pages from the MPS covering the individual listing. Here it is less. Maybe i should try on a different NRHP listing, instead, though I don't like to give up about making this one article a bit better. If you can compose something for the article, i have it watched. Thanks! -- doncram ( talk) 19:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Yeah, i expect there's some nice book or two about covered bridges that would cover those better. I won't worry about trying to fix them better, then. It would be nice if the article creator might be local and willing to take pics; i am not sure of his/her connection to the county. The NPS webpages, NPS Focus and everything, seemed down, for me, earlier, including making the MPS documents for the covered bridges and for the National Road (relevant for the Beallsville Historic District article) unavailable to work from, for now. About the Keith House one, you can call it whatever you like, whether "Keith House (Upper Makesfield Towship, Pennsylvania)" or otherwise, but I do note the NRHP name for it, "Keith House-Washington's Headquarters", seems generally compliant with the NRHP program's instructions for names, which i looked up recently. Don't mean that you have to follow that, just that i was reading the naming instructions and seeing that they suggested forming a meaningful phrase that captures the reason of listing, in some cases. -- doncram ( talk) 00:54, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Okay, for a more normal NRHP listing with a complete NRHP nom, could a reference like the following be improved upon? ^[1]

That uses the work field and includes a link for each of the photos. I believe the photos are part of the document submission so should be included, though this seems less than elegant. -- doncram ( talk) 01:04, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for the reminder about the Cleveland flag. When the weather started to warm up this spring, I snapped a bunch of photos of the Cleveland flag for you. Then I promptly forgot about them. Whoops! What would be the best way to get them to you? - Eureka Lott 07:37, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

I'd be glad to send them to you, but I don't know your address and Wikipedia's e-mail form doesn't allow attachments. Would you like to send me your address? - Eureka Lott 14:02, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

That's a big improvement. Thanks! I'd only make one major change, and that would be to get rid of the "All America City" text. It's on some of the flags, but I think it doesn't appear on the majority. The city ordinance that describes the flag makes no mention of the text. It also says that the "Progress & Prosperity" motto should be in black. - Eureka Lott 00:41, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

Hi Niagara, I just wanted to thank you for your help with my recently-created article on the North Hill Historic District (New Castle, Pennsylvania). Your additions to and cleaning up of the infobox really enhanced the article, and I appreciate it! :) Best, Pianotech  ^{Talk to me!}/ _Contribs 11:35, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Ricketts Glen State Park is currenty up for review at peer review. If you'd like to take a look at it and leave comments Ruhrfisch and I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. Dincher ( talk) 22:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

	<font=3> Thanks again for your peer review, kind words, and support. Ricketts Glen State Park made featured article today. Dincher ( talk) and Ruhrfisch ><>°° 12:59, 16 August 2010 (UTC)

The next park is probably Hyner View. I may work on a covered bridge first. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 03:45, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Yes. Thanks for the kind words. The two most general tips would be to look at FA stream articles and to imitate the things you like or that seem to work well such as the geobox rather than the infobox. I learned a lot of things by studying Larrys Creek by User:Ruhrfisch before I began my first river article. The other general tip would be to look over the guidelines at WP:RIVERS. I'll be happy to try to answer any specific questions you have, and I'm sure other river-article editors will too. Finetooth ( talk) 01:13, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

I have Shaw's Pennsylvania Gazetteer of Streams and can look up various things like length, watershed area, source elevation, etc. in it if you want (I watch your talk page and Finetooth's too). ;-) Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:24, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

You are welcome to look, any help would be appreciated. I think I may have looked already in the 1984 version of the Gazetteer, however, and didn't find it (although that might have been just Part II, having never found Part I...). You do have a more recent PDF version linked on one of your subpages that does mention the Mill Creek, though. I was always curious as whether anyone actually watches this ;-) ​​​​​​​​ Niagara ​​ ^{Don't give up the ship} 02:00, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

If the watershed is smaller than 25 square miles, it is not in Shaw's book (which is Part II). Sorry. I do not have Part I. It is also not in the 1913 PA Gazetteer of Streams. It is in the PDF and in the GNIS. Kmusser can find the length from the National Hydrographic Database, which I hope to learn how to use eventually. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

I wish I could find an Oregon Gazetteer of Streams or any central source for stream lengths and basin sizes. I've been compiling a list of all the streams of Oregon that are at least 40 miles (64 km) long, and I've spent many hours hunting for reliable sources for each bit of data. Two RS bits are still missing, the length of the Illinois River (Oregon) and the basin size of the South Fork John Day River. If either of you know of a better research method for finding lengths and basins, I'd love to know about it. My almost-finished list is living at User:Finetooth/Sandbox3. I will ask Kmusser about the Illinois length. Finetooth ( talk) 18:26, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Little Mountain 5 has found an RS for the South Fork basin size (hooray), and I've cited a fishing guide for the length of the Illinois. I consider the fishing guides to be relatively weak reliable sources for length but probably OK in a pinch. Finetooth ( talk) 00:00, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

The Summer 2010 USRD newsletter has been issued here. JCbot ( talk) 02:22, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

Looks good on a first glance. I'll come back tomorrow and read carefully and post comments to the article's talk page, if you like. Finetooth ( talk) 03:14, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Mill Creek (Lake Erie) is a very fine article. I find the Erie Zoo bridge debris catcher to be quite interesting, enough that with your photo and the reference, I could add it at bridgehunter.com, and perhaps in Wikipedia, too. I am a member of the bridges project here, and have been adding bridges in Philadelphia. Do you have any more photos of the Zoo bridge? I have added a category in Wikimedia Commons for it and other structures in Erie, Pa. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 19:38, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

I am supposing that you will add the additional photos to the Commons. Even a fine article can be better, and yours would be enhanced with a map of the creek, and perhaps a photo of where the creek leaves the tube. There are editors who specialize in creating maps, if you are not able to do it yourself. See Brandywine Creek (Christina River) for a creek map example. When I add the bridge to bridgehunters.com, I will post the URL here. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 21:26, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

Confused, when or where did I comment on this? I don't remember this subject coming up before. Nyttend ( talk) 20:06, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Ah, okay, thanks; yes, I'd forgotten. Since then, I've moved to Indiana and started grad school :-) I'm still somewhat working on Pennsylvania topics; because Indiana University's library is so much more comprehensive than any other library I've ever used, I just got access to some Pennsylvania resources for the first time. See Francis Farm Petroglyphs for an example of information I've gotten from the IU library. Nyttend ( talk) 20:15, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

I had that in college, but I almost never used it; my classes didn't require its use, and I never thought of using it otherwise. Here, I have access to JSTOR for the first time; I'll keep asking advice from other users if I need it, but I'll not need to ask for resource exchanges as much. For example, writing Mummy Cave was difficult because Acroterion and I had to have help from Billwhittaker with a back issue of Science, but I've already checked and gotten access to that same issue myself :-) Okay, enough boasting. If you ever need JSTOR access and don't have it, send me a note and I'll try to get you the article you need. Nyttend ( talk) 21:48, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmm, never heard of it. Remember that I'm just beginning my first semester of library school, and I won't able to get into the Reference class until at least next semester :-) I'd have to go with your librarian and use Ebscohost. Nyttend ( talk) 22:44, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Hello! Your submission of Hamilton Watch Complex at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and there still are some issues that may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Thelmadatter ( talk) 21:06, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

On 10 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mill Creek (Lake Erie), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Materialscientist ( talk) 18:03, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Congratulations! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 23:16, 10 September 2010 (UTC)

Always nice to see Pennsylvania creeks on the Main Page. Look forward to seeing it expanded. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:31, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

My congrats too. Finetooth ( talk) 02:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

On 16 September 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Hamilton Watch Complex, which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page ( here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

— Rlevse • Talk • 00:02, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for fixing so many dead links to the old ARCH system. Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 02:40, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

Thanks from me too. I tried to find the old Lock Haven docs in the new Pennsylvania state system, but they appeared to be protected from general use. I was in a hurry, so I didn't spend much time looking for alternatives. I thought I'd have another go at it eventually. Discovering that you'd beat me to it was much better. Finetooth ( talk) 04:41, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

I like the new panorama of the Pennsylvania State Capitol Complex! Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 22:42, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

I especially like File:Pennsylvania Capitol dome lantern.jpg - Ruhrfisch _><>°^° 01:15, 20 September 2010 (UTC)