User talk:Ken Gallager

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Local help

I just wanted to stop by and offer personal thanks for your contribution to the Katherine Sleeper Walden article. I'm sure you agree that it is shocking she didn't already have a page and, while I can do my best to make it well, I am neither experienced nor from New Hampshire. Thus, you going in and fixing grammatical mistakes and details is extremely important and beneficial. More importantly (or maybe equally important) is the experience of a local and/or someone familiar with the area who can point out glaring mistakes such as my incorrect association between the Bowl and Tuckerman Ravine. I would have likely never realized the mistake and continued to have incorrect information on an article of importance.

I have found in my limited time that people are often being chastised for perceived mistakes commonly and thanked for contributions rarely, and you seem to be quite deserving of thanks. Dionysius Miller^talk 15:06, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi, and thank you for putting together such an informative article! I do a lot of hiking in the area, so it is wonderful to have a full portrait of one of the names that are up there. Ken Gallager (talk) 15:39, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

Worthy article

Hello, I am a new user. You have contacted me before on clumsy editing (sorry!). I was wondering if the article "Rivercrest" is worthy of creation. Rivercrest is an old, demolished, suburban neighborhood in my area next to kendal at Hanover and CRELL. It definitely existed, -you can still go and see the ruins today, but I've been having a hard time finding online sources. You can look at what I've done so far on my subpage, but I don't think it's worthy of creation

Please let me know wether I should keep writing or not. Thanks, PhotoEditor123 (talk) 12:38, 3 March 2024 (UTC)

Hi, thanks for checking in! I suggest taking a look at Wikipedia's General Notability Guideline to see if there's anything about Rivercrest that might be considered notable. On first thought, I'm guessing there isn't; generally individual neighborhoods in a town are not notable enough. However, does it have a history with notable elements to it? Are there famous people who lived there or developed it? Is it significant in the history of urban or suburban development in the state? Things like that. Keep up the good work! Ken Gallager (talk) 14:58, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Category:Jewish summer camps in New Hampshire has been nominated for splitting

Category:Jewish summer camps in New Hampshire has been nominated for splitting. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Omnis Scientia (talk) 11:18, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

CDP lists

Hi! I saw the CDP list and found, as of 2020, several of these had not been designated as CDPs by the U.S. Census Bureau. I checked the places lists of the 2020, 2010, and 2000 censuses. Also the 1990 map of Posey County doesn't show these either.

I found Parkers Settlement is a CDP as of 2020. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:40, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello! I appreciate your reaching out. I'm remembering now the issue. You are right, the only CDP in the county as of the 2020 census was Parkers Settlement. The other four CDPs (Blairsville, St. Wendel, Stewartsville, and Wadesville) have been created since then, as were a lot of CDPs around the state. You can see them in the current Census Gazetteer files and Census TIGER maps. The 2023 Gazetteer for Indiana is here. The TIGER maps are best viewed through TIGERweb. You can zoom into Posey County and turn on "Places and County Subdivisions" to see the CDPs. If you choose "Current" in the "Select Vintage" box in the upper left part of screen, you will see Blairsville, Parkers Settlement, St. Wendel, Stewartsville, and Wadesville CDPs. If you change the vintage to the 2020 census, the only CDP visible is Parkers Settlement. My opinion is that the new CDPs should be shown in the infoboxes, because the Census is already producing statistics for them, e.g. in the 2022 American Community Survey. Let me know what you think. Ken Gallager (talk) 16:04, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

If they were created in 2023, then I agree they should be added! I can cite the 2023 gazeteer and the 2020 list in the same citation, so people can see they are present in 2023 but not in 2020. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:39, 13 June 2024 (UTC)