User talk:Paschmitts

First Userbox

My fist userbox was deemed in violation of Wikipedia licensing policies and was removed.

From ash931... I actually attend the school. Yup, I'm in 7th grade there. I'm going to update the article some more.

Teachers

Thanks for adding the sections about teachers to the school articles; however, please make note of your source for these lists. Thanks. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 04:37, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Rogers CAPA

Hi, it's really cool of you to make that whole article about my school. We're featuring the article in an upcoming issue of the student newspaper. But, how do you know so much about the school? Did you go there? Are you just reading the website? Thanks A student -- 04:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC) 141.151.173.201

Thanx, I'd be more than happy to see it in the school paper. As for knowing about the school, I'm the father of an eighth-grade Stagecraft Major and my younger son just auditioned to enter Stagecraft next year. Some of the material I copied (with permission) from Mr. Thompson's web site (which is where I got the incorrect name for the student newspaper).

May I suggest you sign yourself up for a Wikipedia account and help add to the page?

– Paschmitts 21:32, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree about registering, and I'm here as well to help. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 22:56, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Taylor Allderdice High School

Hey there,

User:0-0-0-Destruct-0 has asked that I as an AMA, have a look at the Taylor Allderdice High School article and help him to explain some of the reasons why he feels that some of his points weren't entirely taken in by the others who help edit this article. I've updated it's talk page with some comments you may want to respond to, or may just find interesting. Thanks!

--•Elomis• 22:35, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Pittsburgh Barnstar

		The Pittsburgh Barnstar
		I hereby award you this Barnstar in recognition of your efforts to improve and organize Pittsburgh-related articles, particularly your work with the school articles. Thanks, Chris Griswold (☎☓) 08:09, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I did my best

This user attends or attended
DePaul University.

I took way too much time on this today, and I don't think it yet has a decent photo. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 04:25, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanx, but I think this would be rejected too. My last attempt used a CC licensed DePaul flag from Flickr, but I was told that despite the image being OK, the flag itself was assumed to be copyrighted by DePaul and unusable in Userboxen. I would have to assume that since this picture contains DePaul banners, they would be copyright by DePaul and unusable as well. BTW, we can't even use the letters "DPU" in the Userbox as according to this trademark any use of those letters in reference to DePaul University is trademarked by the University. So as far as I can tell any recognizable image or logo associated with DePaul is copyrighted or trademarked by the University and therefore unusable in a Userbox. – Paschmitts 15:01, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

There's a difference between the flag and a picture that contains a flag as one of its many elements. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 07:41, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

The trademark link doesn't work right for me. Session expired. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 07:49, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Allegheny County Airport

Just wanted to let you know why I changed the template back. Both templates lead to same thing and can be used to see the image with Google Earth. The thing about using the template without the "at" is that it doesn't duplicate the link in the top right hand side of the article. I guess I just think it looks better. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 09:59, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

That page works with Google Maps. I'm talking about the new Wikipedia Layer in Google Earth which, according to this article by a GE developer, requires either {{coor title d}} or {{coor at d}} (or the dm and dms variants) to be included in that layer. I think that the decrease in cosmetics is worth the additional exposure of all things Pittsburgh to Google Earth users. – Paschmitts 13:39, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Ah, now I understand. I've seen the edite summary a few times but couldn't figure out what it ment as the coordinate link will alwasy lead to a Google Earth link. I left a message at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Airports/Infobox#Google earth to see if concensus could be reach to change the box. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:57, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanx. Being a Google Earth geek and a Wikipedia editor, I got pretty excited about this. I've been running around articles in WP:PGH and geotagging them like crazy. Anyway, thanx again for the consideration. – Paschmitts 14:04, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

History of Pittsburgh - request for collaboration

I've put a lot of additional work into this article, based on feedback from when it was a Featured Article Candidate. Also updated the maps to give them a more standard appearance. I'm going to submit the article for peer review and then FAC again. Before I do, though, I need some help from the WikiProject Pittsburgh. Please take some time and help with these tasks:

1. improve the article with changes, additions and deletions
2. some stern proof-reading, please
3. give it a quality/importance rating at Talk:History of Pittsburgh
4. leave feedback at Talk:History of Pittsburgh

Thanks. I'll be leaving this note at the talk pages of the project members who have been most active in Pittsburgh-related articles. Tomcool 14:42, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Upper St. Clair High School

Hey Paschmitts, Thanks for all of your work on the USCHS article! Any ideas on how to improve this article to the competitve level for a featured article?

Thanks,

Jeeps2009 02:25, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Shucks! I've been running around a bunch of Pittsburgh's school articles and trying to improve them a little. Anyway, I recently discovered WikiProject Schools which has a number of great suggestions on how to improve school articles. – Paschmitts 20:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Category Question

Thanks for adding Category:Parks in Pittsburgh to so many of the SE PA state park articles. Might I respectfully suggest that the category be renamed to something like "Parks in Greater Pittsburgh" or "Parks in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area"? When I think of Fayette County, PA for example, the first thing I think of is NOT Pittsburgh. Thanks, Ruhrfisch 20:27, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I was thinking that myself as I was adding to the cat. Maybe "Pittsburgh Area Parks"? I'll take this to the category talk page. – Paschmitts 22:07, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Mt. Lebanon School District

Please take a look at these edits to this article. I trust your judgment and experience with these articles more than my own. Please call on me whenever you need my help. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 09:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanx for bring it to my attention. I think it definitely needs cleaned up ;-). Certainly the phrase "the insane Upper St. Clair principal" violates WP:NPOV unless they can reference a clinical report on his mental health. I'll give it the once over and see what I can do. – Paschmitts 16:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Sewickley Academy

When you have time, please take a look at this article and see what you can do. Thanks, Chris Griswold (☎☓) 21:13, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

I'll work on it soon. Unfortunately I agree with the spam you removed, there's too much sports there. It seems that sports is all many people can say about their school. – Paschmitts 00:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

Dealing with vandals

When you see vandalism, in addition to reverting it, please try to add warnings to the user's talk page. This allows other editors to know when a user is being a problem; informs the vandal that what they are doing is actually problematic, which they might not have understood; and moves the disciplinary process along so that the user can be blocked if necessary. Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace shows all of the applicable templates and when they are appropriate. In addition, I added a script that's available that changes my Wikipedia pages to make it easier to add these warnings, among many other features. If you are interested, let me know, and I will try to find the information on that for you. Thanks. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 22:54, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

I had been trying to. But I started winding up on pages with dozens of warnings and figured "What's the point?" – Paschmitts 22:16, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

The point is you can add to the page, or you can make a list of people who need to be blocked and give it to me and then I will block them. As an admin, I have more abilities here than you do, and I would like to use them to help you as much as I can. --Chris Griswold (☎☓) 23:40, 19 February 2007 (UTC)