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A great start! Thanks / diolch! -- Llywelyn2000 (talk) 09:19, 10 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Would you mind taking a look at U.S. Route 62 in Oklahoma and Oklahoma State Highway 74 soon? They're "easy to fix" meaning it's just 1-2 citations that need fixing. Thanks! --Rschen7754 11:13, 20 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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—EdwardsBot (talk) 22:24, 27 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This is not a stand alone list. It is a part of List of casinos in the United States and they all need the same format to display correctly. I looking at the list right now, I see that someone else made a change that messed up the display, so that will need fixing. Most casino companies already have navigation templates for their casinos so doing this in a US list is not quite a necessary. Also some of these companies also have international casinos so the company template is the better solution in those cases. If you want to change the master format, then it probably should be discussed on Talk:List of casinos in the United States or at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gambling. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:15, 3 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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• Like -- Well done, Scott. TCN7JM 03:28, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Congratulations, Scott. If I had more time, maybe I could have given you more of a run for your "money". You, Bruce, TCN7JM, and the others should be proud of your performance. Thank you for the opportunity to compete. :) Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 03:50, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, everyone! I hope to see you all in next year's cup. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 04:30, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Any thoughts on putting together a map based on the KML? At some point, if we're being a tad ambitious, I might request maps for CR 510 (has an article) and CR 550 (will have one someday) as well. About the only other CR in the county I could imaging getting an article is CR 480; pretty much any other primary CR isn't going to be up to GNG goals. Imzadi 1979 → 22:59, 5 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the Wikidata: By German law the "Bundesfernstraßengesetz" is a "Bundesstraße" (in Germany) a "Fernstraße" and not a "Außerortsstraße". It may be that in the USA and in the English language the term "road" is not determined. In Germany there is the term "Außerortsstraße" a clear legal basis and is limited by law to a type: all streets outside built-up areas according the traffic act ("Straßenverkehrsordnung").
It may be that there is a need for discussion. But simply to say that I do not know what I am talking about and reset my contributions that I find it is not alright!
By the way: the correct translation for "road" according to the dictionary is "Landstraße" or "Überlandstraße". These terms are in German not determined. --Labant (talk) 22:03, 12 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

(talk page stalker) Ever heard of WP:BRD? I'm not sure if it applies on Wikidata, but it most definitely should. If Scott thought your bold contribution was incorrect, he was correct to revert it and then discuss it with you. TCN7JM 12:38, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

After several cups of tea (I was extremely angry), I have taken your suggestion for a German-speaking and English-speaking intermediary good note. We are searching also in the German chapter just to find a solution within the German Wikipedia, because it could be that the English and German article are incompatible at the moment. --Labant (talk) 23:34, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I have talked to User:Vogone who has explained the issue another way. --Rschen7754 23:39, 14 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks. I wasn't in any danger, although the tornado touched down fairly near to here (I'm at work), it was headed in the opposite direction from me. I figured everyone might be worried though. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 00:06, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello, I have attempted to address your concerns at Talk:Texas Recreational Road 11/GA2. Thanks for the review, - Awardgive. Help out with Project Fillmore County 04:57, 28 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Oklahoma State Highway 30 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 12:31, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The article Oklahoma State Highway 30 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needed to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass, otherwise it will fail. See Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 30 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 12:50, 26 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The article Oklahoma State Highway 30 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 30 for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 23:12, 27 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks! —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 19:40, 30 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, if you haven't already, you should consider signing up for WikiCup 2014. Cheers, --Sp33dyphil ©^hat_ontributions 00:46, 4 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

On my sandbox, I have begun to reformat the List of numbered highways in Georgia (U.S. state) page. I was told on the WikiProject page to use the {{Routelist top}}, {{Routelist row}}, and {{Routelist bottom}} templates. However, since I have never used them, I need help and guidance on how to properly do this huge project. Mind you, there are lots of redlinks, because the redirects haven't been made, yet. Also, the second route that I tested the reformat using the templates with is a business route. How do I format those? User:Rschen7754 said to ask you, since you made them, and he never used them before. Thank you for your help. Allen (Morriswa) (talk) 07:21, 7 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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—EdwardsBot (talk) 03:09, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Due to realignment south of US 138, almost one mile was added to the length of US 385. Omitting the overlap mileages means that the table is lying about the distance between the SH 11 junction and the north split with US 138. There's also a relatively minor issue at US 50, where CDOT decided to start at exactly 95 rather than the more precise 95.018 miles from Oklahoma to the split. (.018 miles isn't much, but it's very likely that there are larger differences on other routes.)

It's not ideal to recalculate the mileage north of US 138, since mileposts are posted according to the official mileage.

For reasons that should be obvious, I'm changing it back. If you have a problem with this style of mileposting, why not start with a featured article? --NE2 08:03, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and fixed the formatting - the {{jctint}} templates have been significantly upgraded since you were last active. --Rschen7754 09:57, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Interstate 70 in Ohio County, West Virginia. Since you had some involvement with the Interstate 70 in Ohio County, West Virginia redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion (if you have not already done so). AdmrBoltz 19:27, 14 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey Scott,

In this thread, you mentioned that QGIS sucks in making SVG outputs of data. What exactly are the issues you have having? I use QGIS to make my maps and I'm wondering if the tricks I use to fix the problems are the only things stopping you from doing svg maps. I couldn't find any information on what SVG editor you're using so I will assume for now you're using Inkscape.

• Every single thing is grouped together at the first open of the SVG. Just hit ungroup once.
• Extra boxes in background. When I use the composer, three boxes appear in the background. One is the background of the map I will be using (the one that's this color per current MTF standards), another is a white box, and finally a grey box. The #f7f7ed background color can be specified in the QGIS composer under the item properties tab, general options header, and background color button. I just delete the two extra boxes.
• This one might just be with older versions of Inkscape (I still run 0.46), but the viewBox attribute causes issues for me when resizing the file. I manually delete the viewBox by either going into the XML editor and deleting the attribute or if I'm doing a mass creation and want to get this out of the way early, open as a text file and delete the line viewBox="0 0 [foo] [doo]". For me, the background box does enlarge itself after deleting the viewBox, but I just go to Document Properties and resize to the background box.
• Line segments outside of the limit of interest. This one may just be with me due to the way I go through the data for a state's highway system before mass map creation but occasionally I'll get road segments way outside of the LOI such that when I do zoom extents, the LOI ends up being really small. To fix, while the types of lines are grouped together, I rubberband select all areas outside of the LOI to catch these extraneous segments. Also when this is done, I combine (Ctrl+K) all lines in each type of route together (state routes, US routes, Interstates). The stroke width usually gets screwed up when combining but that's just a matter of going into the Fill and Stroke box.
• Lots of empty groups. I think the QGIS SVG composer creates an empty group for every type of thing composed (state routes, US routes, Interstates, toll roads, county lines, state lines, urban areas, water, etc.) Rubberband select everything in the LOI and hit ⇧ Shift+1 to invert the selection and delete the empty groups (before deleting, make sure a line or two didn't get selected here)

I apologize in advance if you already know these troubleshooting methods but I just wanted to give you a heads up. If there are other issues that you've encountered but I didn't mention, feel free to let me know about those.

Since I'm contacting you, your method of replying as noted at the top here may override my talk page request. Thanks! —Mr. Matté (^Talk/_Contrib) 13:23, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Re File:Ok-325 path.svg, it looks like the data you used caused the million little segments, not QGIS (note that I'm just guessing since the data link on the map no longer works). I typically use the TIGER Census data to build my maps and the polylines from there do have multiple points; things like that have never happened to me using Census data. I guess this is moot since as you stated, you don't do .svg maps but I just wanted to add my $0.02 (2007) ($0.023 in 2014). —Mr. Matté (^Talk/_Contrib) 19:07, 3 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! Some users have been working hard on Category:Pages with broken reference names.

Here you added a new reference <ref name="odot-control-stephens"/> but didn't define it. This has been showing as an error at the bottom of the article. "Cite error: The named reference REFNAME was invoked but never defined (see the help page)." Can you take a look and work out what you were trying to do? Thanks -- Frze ^{> talk} 13:56, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

You wouldn't be able to do one of those for Utah would you? I'd like to have FA/A/GA but I'd only ask for it to be updated at most monthly so there's not constant updates of GAs. --AdmrBoltz 22:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm so lucky we already have one for South Dakota. TCN7JM 00:53, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hahaha. --AdmrBoltz 01:56, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Might be something I could do. TCNJM is rounding up all the GA KMLs for me so that this would be possible. —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 03:36, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Have you seen my work I've done to that page! I've added some more route descriptions. DudeWithAFeud (talk) 11:07, 10 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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—MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 01:15, 17 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, would you like to become an admin? Philroc (talk) 23:44, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

He already is. TCN7JM 01:27, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This can be verified by going to Special:ListUsers and put in their user name at the end. --AdmrBoltz 01:47, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

But perhaps he means adminship on Meta. --Rschen7754 05:02, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I only have 6 edits on Meta... :P —Scott5114↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 06:14, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, you just need 994 more. --Rschen7754 06:26, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Wait, there's an edit count requirement on Meta? TCN7JM 22:07, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not officially, but that's the de facto requirement. --Rschen7754 22:09, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Lies. And many users with 1000+ edits already failed a metawiki RFA. Vogone (talk) 22:31, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Well, but of course that is not the only criterion. --Rschen7754 22:49, 19 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Oklahoma State Highway 34 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 17:00, 23 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Oklahoma State Highway 34 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 34 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 01:20, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Oklahoma State Highway 108 you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 22:50, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Oklahoma State Highway 108 you nominated as a good article has been placed on hold . The article is close to meeting the good article criteria, but there are some minor changes or clarifications needing to be addressed. If these are fixed within 7 days, the article will pass; otherwise it may fail. See Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 108 for things which need to be addressed. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 03:10, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Oklahoma State Highway 34 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 34 for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TCN7JM -- TCN7JM (talk) 03:51, 27 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The article Oklahoma State Highway 108 you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Oklahoma State Highway 108 for comments about the article. Well done! Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of CycloneIsaac -- CycloneIsaac (talk) 21:01, 28 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]