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nice pic

Julian Hotel in Corvallis

Hi, i noticed your addition of a nice pic. Thanks for contributing! doncram (talk) 00:13, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Oh, actually, i see you contributed many pics. Hey, i am going to start the article for one of those, the Elias Woodward House, now. It will include your picture and a NRHP infobox. I'd be glad to help you with infoboxes for any other NRHP articles you might want to start up. Also, there are other editor resources for NRHP articles at wp:NRHPmos and wp:NRHP. doncram (talk) 16:33, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Hey, now i see you've completed out pics for the National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Oregon list, except for two historic districts (HDs): Avery-Helm Historic District and College Hill West Historic District. Great work! I've done the individual NRHP listings and skipped the HD ones, in some areas myself. In particular I didn't at first know how to satisfactorily cover an HD, and the short location description doesn't help very much. It helps, especially for HD ones, to get copies of the National Register application documents. You can request these for free by email request to nr_reference (at) nps.gov. The National Park Service may provide them in PDF files if they have been scanned already, or it may postal mail mail them to you, either way for free. Then you can know which buildings in the district are the most significant, and take pictures of some or all of them. With the NRHP document in hand, it is also more satisfying educationally, as you can learn a lot about the places. Hope this is helpful. Keep up the good work! :) doncram (talk) 15:43, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

welcome to Wikipedia!

Before the template message, I saw the work you've been doing on National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Oregon. I suspect you'll be very interested in the following.

And the templated invite:

You are invited to join WikiProject Oregon, a WikiProject dedicated to improving articles related to the U.S. state of Oregon . You received this invitation because of your history editing Oregon articles or discussion of Oregon topics. The Oregon WikiProject group discussion is here. If you are interested in joining, please visit the project page, and add your name to the list of participants. New members may read about existing members and introduce themselves here.

Cheers, tedder (talk) 22:30, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

And even if you don't feel like joining a group, great work on the pictures and here is a list of other articles that are in your general area that could use images too if you have them. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:41, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

And welcome to the project

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Katr67 (talk) 12:38, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, welcome! I relate strongly to your interest in history, and its impact on how we perceive the present and determine where we're going...I've found Wikipedia editing strangely satisfying in that regard :) Hope to see you around the wiki. -Pete (talk) 01:30, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

corrections to NRHP information

Hi, i notice in a recent series of edits that you added more pics and also changed town info for some of the Benton County NRHP listings, and changed the street address for one, George Taylor House (Corvallis, Oregon). Adding pics is great. I assume also that you have good local knowledge and that your changes are in effect corrections to errors in the National Register database.

Although the National Register database, the National Register Information System (NRIS), is pretty darn good quality, various wikipedians have identified a good number of errors in it. A number of us have been trying to identify errors centrally, at wp:NRIS info issues. The idea is to report the errors we observe and to get them corrected in the National Register, in part so that future wikipedia editors don't change our "corrections" in wikipedia back to the National Register incorrect info.

By the way, the town location information is not necessarily exactly an error there, because the town field often reflects a village/town/city that is "near to" a given place. So, it is still an improvement for u to put in Philomath if that is the actual town for a place, but it may be that a different town/hamlet is "near", so the National Register is not actually completely wrong. But, wherever there is an actual error, it would be very helpful if you would consider noting it at wp:NRIS info issues.

Anyhow, I'll add an entry for the address info on the George Taylor House (Corvallis, Oregon), based on your change. If you have documentation of the correct info, it would be great if you could add that. Thanks! doncram (talk) 03:57, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

• Thanks for the heads up. We went back and rechecked the address and it is at 504 NW 6th. We have corrected our revision to the address. Here is the link to the City of Covallis listing for the property. http://www.ci.corvallis.or.us/downloads/city/6th_nw_504.pdf . 46percent (talk) 20:16, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Added the document to the article. So the correction to the National Register is that it is located on NW street, not SW street? That's what i wrote into an entry for this house at Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/NRIS information issues#Oregon: address issues. If i don't have it correct, please correct it directly there. Thanks! doncram (talk) 22:51, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

Just a heads up about COI

Hi, I see you mentioned the City of Corvallis. You've done nothing that I can see to run afoul of the conflict of interest guidelines so far, but I'm including the template below as reminder. I see you've also referred to yourself as "we". Unless you are royalty :), do know that we do not allow role accounts. Each contributor from the city should have a separate log-in. Sorry if I'm making the wrong assumptions, I'm not trying to discourage you from your marvelous work, but sometimes people run into trouble in this area, so I thought I'd let you know. It realize it might seem rather silly to have to adhere to this policy when you're trying to spread knowledge rather than necessarily "promote" something. Let me know if you have any questions. Cheers! Katr67 (talk) 22:23, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

• The "we" refers to my children who reside with me and are enjoying our treasure hunt of finding history.46percent (talk) 04:44, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

OK, sorry if I caused offense. Katr67 (talk) 15:56, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

• None taken.

An award

		The Exceptional Newcomer Award
		For all your hard work in August adding lots of photos for the Mid-Valley. Aboutmovies (talk) 06:12, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

• Wow, Thank you. This is quite an honor.--46percent (talk) 14:58, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

DYK nomination of David and Maggie Aegerter Barn

Hello! Your submission of David and Maggie Aegerter Barn 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! Grsz¹¹ 03:19, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

DYK for David and Maggie Aegerter Barn

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Wikiproject: Did you know? 03:42, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Hey, 46percent, the DYK is right now on the front page of wikipedia. I created it without a lot of info, it's a bit thin, but large enough to meet the DYK eligibility criteria. There will be at least a few hundred views of the article today, i am sure, but there would be more if the pic was included in the DYK. Unfortuneately they didn't include it, tho it was in my nomination. Thanks for taking the nice pic for it. Interesting for me to learn a little about Oregon in the process. doncram (talk) 04:25, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

• You are welcome for the photo. Thanks for your efforts on the article.--46percent (talk) 15:00, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

Pictures

		The Photographer's Barnstar
		This Photographer's Barnstar is being awarded for your efforts to improve NRHP lists and articles in the Mid Valley. Great job. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

• Thank you. This is quite an honor!--46percent (talk) 15:05, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

It Takes a Rim Village - Oregon COTW

Greetings WikiProject Oregon member, time for the next edition of the Collaboration of the Week. Thanks to those who assisted in improving a few articles over the last month. For May Day edition of the COTW (in Wikipedia time its May already), we have by request Rim Village Historic District and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (AKA OMSI). Rim Village just needs some refinement to get to GA, while OMSI needs a lot of work in general. As always, click here to opt out of these messages, or click here to make a suggestion for a future COTW. Adios (on May 5th that is). Aboutmovies (talk) 04:54, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

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WPORE COTW 2.0 - the picture edition

Greetings one and all. For some of you, this will be your first time receiving one of these messages, as it has been a year since the WikiProject Oregon Collaboration of the Week (COTW) was a regular thing. My hope is it gets back to being a regular thing.

Usually I would go over the past COTW, but we are basically starting out anew. So, without further adieu, this edition is our semi-annual picture drive. We usually try to do it when there is decent weather in the state, and today seems to fit the bill. Now although you are encouraged to go out and take pictures, you can also just search the internet for images that have the proper licensing and upload those. Flickr is one site that has a fair amount of content with the proper licensing (most images on Flickr are not compatible). See WP:COPYRIGHT in general. For some “free” sources, check out the our dormant subproject that has some links to sources.

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Monroe State Bank Building

Not the historic building which was intended, oh well

Hey, i'm sorry to see your account has been inactive since 2014. I just figured out that a pic of yours is not in fact a pic of the historic building, which might have been torn down, who knows. Now the NRHP nomination document with photos is available online, and it's not the same building. I will make revisions at the Monroe State Bank Building article and at the commons page for the photograph. If/when you ever see this, it would be great if you would review and fix any possible problems with my changes. The best scenario would be for the building to exist still, and for you to get a new pic of it.... --doncram 19:43, 3 April 2017 (UTC)

Address Restricted...

I've responded to your message on my talk page. Thanks. — Ipoellet (talk) 00:38, 1 January 2018 (UTC)