User talk:LouisianaNative

Thank you for helping! Help!

It's always good to see someone making contributions to LPedia on a recurring basis. Your contributions are appreciated. By any chance do you have the ability to get county information for Louisiana and some of the other states you've been working on? Right now I have a working script (AutostubLP2) to crank out article stubs on counties such as Santa Clara -- the best case I've found yet for historical information -- and just need the information to plug into a spreadsheet (one line per county). Pretty much everything I had for California came form web sites, the Internet Archive, and a USENET posting from Dehn in 1995 that I've made use of before.

While I'm hoping to contact county and state affiliates after the fact, an help I could get before could also increase my chances of covering more than just a handful of states.

Whether or not you're able to participate in this, thank you for your contributions to LPedia!

-- Strangelv 23:31, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the words of appreciation. I do have information on Louisiana Parish's (we don't have counties) but we only have one that is organized (I am the Chair). The Caddo Parish affliate is organized but no other Parish is organized as of yet. Let me know if you need help with anything or need to delegate some work. Thanks.

Parishes/Boroughs/Counties once organized are of equal interest as ones currently organized (this was supposed to be a historical wiki, after all). 8) I have articles for two California regionaal entities that no longer exist -- both broken up and their region number assigned to one of their component counties. I'm not sure if Alaska has any organizations with its boroughs. It may be necessary to contact them first and ask.

Do you feel up to taking on a few states to see if you can hunt down the information? I wrote a guide that tries to show what I've learned for using the Internet Archive for a source of information: http://lpedia.org/Help:Research_With_the_Internet_Archive -- although I've discovered since that it behaves very differently with javascript whitelisted and another example is likely needed. I can also send you a copy of one of my spreadsheets (my script reads csv format) for reference. 8) ...Or maybe I can try to upload a small example into the wiki... will have to wait until the morning when I'm not 90% asleep...

--Strangelv 02:26, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

I have posted both a test CSV and the current version of the source code to User talk:AutostubLP2‎. -- Strangelv 17:31, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Question

I linked in and you removed the link as obsolete. Should that image be deleted or added to a "historical" page or a historical reference on the LA state page? Miros1 21:31, 21 May 2012 (UTC)