User talk:FunksBrother

Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon Invitation

Hey there! If you're still around the Columbus area, I'd like to invite you to attend Wikipedia Connection's Art+Feminism Edit-A-Thon at the Ohio State University on Saturday, March 5, from 1 - 5 PM. You may be aware of Art+Feminism, but if not, it's a global event that brings together diverse communities to create and improve Wikipedia articles related to women in the arts. The purpose of this event is to help combat the lack of coverage women and art subjects receive due to less than 10% of Wikipedia editors being women. Anyone with an interest is welcome to join, and we're expecting a good mix of students, faculty, and veteran Wikipedians. If you have any questions or are interested, just let me know. In addition to the signup page above, we have an RSVP form here. Thanks! ~SuperHamster Talk Contribs 15:36, 2 March 2016 (UTC)

You're invited! Great Buckeye Wiknic 2016

Hello there! You are invited to attend the Great Buckeye Wiknic in Columbus, Ohio on Sunday, July 10th from 1:00 to 5:00 PM! Join us for a day in the park for food and socializing with others from the Wikimedia movement. We'll be meeting up at Fred Beekman Park, a park on Ohio State University's campus.

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Copying within Wikipedia requires proper attribution

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DYK nomination of Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México

Hello! Your submission of Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it 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! Yoninah (talk) 00:43, 14 March 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México

On 18 March 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the planned Toluca-Mexico Commuter Rail suffered four construction accidents in a three-month period in 2016? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Writer's Barnstar
	Hi, I want to congratulate you for your work at DYK, and particularly for writing Tren Interurbano de Pasajeros Toluca-Valle de México. Keep up the great work! ComputerJA (☎ • ✎) 01:48, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Proposed deletion of Harlots (TV series)

Hello, FunksBrother. I wanted to let you know that I’m proposing an article that you started, Harlots (TV series), for deletion because I don't think it meets our criteria for inclusion. If you don't want the article deleted:

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2. remove the text that looks like this: {{proposed deletion/dated...}}
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You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions.

Eddie Blick (talk) 23:39, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

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Autopatrolled granted

Hi FunksBrother, 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 patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Schwede66 18:47, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Top 25

Thanks for your help, and making me note an error in my count. Made a provisional page, you can edit it if you want. igordebraga ≠ 17:53, 5 August 2017 (UTC)

Puebla earthquake

Regarding your removal it would have been useful to have some substantiation. --Itu (talk) 21:23, 19 September 2017 (UTC)

Re: J.M. Stuart Station

Feel free to improve the map. I believe it's just generated by one of the infobox parameters using the location? Have a look into it, I'm not too sure myself. --Lewis Cawte (Talk) 21:21, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

@Lewis Cawte, I was able to solve it myself. Just add: |location_map = to any infobox. FunksBrother (talk) 19:11, 26 October 2017 (UTC)

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1998 NFC Championship Game

I'm working on the TFA blurb. Would it be more accurate to say the Vikings "became the first team ever with an NFL regular season record of 15–1 that did not go on to win the Super Bowl", or "... record of 15–1 or better ...", or "... with only one loss ..."? - Dank (push to talk) 23:39, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

@Dank Make it clear to the reader. Go with the first quote. This citation confirms it. Keep in mind that 1984 San Francisco 49ers won the Super Bowl with a regular season record of 15-1 and so did the 1985 Chicago Bears. Meanwhile the more recent 2015 Carolina Panthers went 15-1 only to lose in the Super Bowl. FunksBrother (talk) 23:50, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks much. - Dank (push to talk) 23:56, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Picway Power Plant

On 14 May 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Picway Power Plant, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the last railroad in Ohio to be powered by third rail delivered coal to the Picway Power Plant? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Picway Power Plant. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Picway Power Plant), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

Picway Power Plant coordinates

The coordinates you put in the Picway Power Plant article were highly precise, but inaccurate in that they missed the power plant. Where did you obtain them? I am trying to get a handle on the proliferation of inaccurate but strangely precise coordinates on Wikipedia. Abductive (reasoning) 03:02, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

@Abductive is using Google Maps for the coordinates bad? If so, is there a Wikipedia guideline for adding coordinates for articles? FunksBrother (talk) 03:12, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

How do you obtain the coords? Copying-and-pasting, but from where? Right-clicking doesn't work for me.

Anyways, WP:OGC is the guideline. I personally use Wikimapia because one can toggle between Google's map, satellite, terrain views and Bing's maps too. Plus Wikimapia gives the coordinates the reticle is pointed at as you move around. Abductive (reasoning) 03:18, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

FunksBrother and Abductive, I always use mapper.acme.com. It has all the Google Maps layers, and it also has USGS quads. Nyttend (talk) 17:50, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Ok. Abductive (reasoning) 20:58, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

PS, I should have said "and it has a big green box at bottom right that displays the coordinates of the center of the map". Finding the coordinates for any location is trivial, once you're at the location. Nyttend (talk) 23:06, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Killen Station

No, sorry, no other photos. Aside from National Register images, I don't keep any wiki-photos on my computer long-term, so any others I took would be in Commons:Category:Monroe Township, Adams County, Ohio if there were any, but there aren't. Nyttend (talk) 17:49, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

Coordinates of Conesville Power Plant

The coordinates you put in the Conesville Power Plant article were inaccurate in that they missed the power plant. Please check the coordinates you put in Wikipedia on an internet mapping service that has an aerial view. Inaccurate coordinates have an unfortunate tendency to proliferate, and it is incumbent on Wikipedia editors to check that they are not introducing mistakes onto Wikipedia. Abductive (reasoning) 04:53, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

@Abductive I will take your advice and start using mapper.acme.com in the future. I just used the site to search the coordinates for Northern Neck Regional Jail. The coordinates that mapper.acme.com gave me as its output is what I inputted into the article. FunksBrother (talk) 17:55, 11 July 2018 (UTC)

DYK for Conesville Power Plant

On 14 July 2018, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Conesville Power Plant, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that two protestors from Greenpeace climbed up one of Conesville Power Plant's smokestacks (pictured) to protest against acid rain? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Conesville Power Plant. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Conesville Power Plant), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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DYK for Philo Power Plant

On 28 January 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Philo Power Plant, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the Philo Power Plant was demolished, the rotors from turbine six were utilized in a sculpture created by George Greenamyer? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Philo Power Plant. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Philo Power Plant), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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2019 US Banknote Contest

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Edit-War regarding Larry Householder

I can't help but notice you're reverting cited information without checking the citations provided. Would you like to discuss this?2602:306:311F:13B0:F933:CAF9:C8AD:ED23 (talk) 01:44, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Something that I see with your edits is that they're not being cited. I know you're trying to contribute in good faith, but your edits fall under WP:EXCESSDETAIL and WP:NOTNEWSPAPER. FunksBrother (talk) 01:50, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

The press conference this information comes from is cited. Please, explain how to make the reference number show up without duplicating the same citation as a new number.2602:306:311F:13B0:F933:CAF9:C8AD:ED23 (talk) 01:53, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Hey I left a welcoming message on your talk page so you can learn more about how to use Wikipedia. To use the same citation, insert <ref name= /> in the future. The press conference is a great citation to use, but adding too much detail that has already been explained before drowns the reader. Remember, this is an encyclopedia, not a news source. FunksBrother (talk) 02:00, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Inserting the text <ref name= /> does not produce the intended result. Please provide further detail on using this tag. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources#Duplicate_citations does not provide a sufficiently useful demonstration.2602:306:311F:13B0:F933:CAF9:C8AD:ED23 (talk) 02:05, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Footnotes#WP:REFNAME. FunksBrother (talk) 02:10, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Dang!

I follow U.S. politics quite closely and I somehow completely missed this. Quite a year we're living in when the arrest of a house speaker on RICO charges barely makes the news! Marquardtika (talk) 01:35, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

@Marquardtika: It might have not made news down in Texas, but it was big news here in the State of Ohio. The house speaker has been removed of their speakership.FunksBrother (talk) 02:22, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

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Nomination of Gas leak phone call scam for deletion

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