User talk:GeoFAXsafety79: Difference between revisions

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@GeoFAXsafety79 I recommend checking the page’s history before making revisions, since other editors may be at work. 🌊 oceanloop 06:03, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Been having issues with adding links to my sources in the captions for my three GIS map images. Think you can help me? I don’t understand how to fix it. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 09:32, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You do not need to add a source references for images, since it is already on Commons. Thank you. 🌊 oceanloop 14:42, 28 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me, please? I am trying to add a source for the image I added showing the GIS map of Ohio. It is noted as “6 of 8” on Wikipedia’s gallery. The source code keeps rejecting the link. Can you help me add it, please? The link is https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=bcfb82f39c2b43cc87f917b66febc0f9&extent=-85.661 GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 06:05, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello GeoFAXsafety79! Your additions to Great Black Swamp have been removed in whole or in part, as they appear to have added copyrighted content without evidence that the source material is in the public domain or has been released by its owner or legal agent under a suitably free and compatible copyright license—to request such a release, see Wikipedia:Requesting copyright permission. While we appreciate your contributions to Wikipedia, it’s important to understand and adhere to guidelines about using information from sources to prevent copyright and plagiarism issues. Here are the key points:

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Thanks for these guidelines. I appreciate the assistance. Sorry about the mistakes. I’ll be sticking to your notes when I edit from now on. Can you help me, please? I am trying to link an image source for the Wikipedia article on “Great Black Swamp”, but I think the source code is not working right or I am doing something wrong. It is a GIS presettlement vegetation map from a public domain source, but the link in the image does not work. Right now, it just says, “ Template:ArcGIS – Original Natural Vegetation of Ohio.” How can I get the image to accept the link? This is the link to the source: https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=bcfb82f39c2b43cc87f917b66febc0f9&extent=-85.661 GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 22:13, 29 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The correct url is https://www.arcgis.com/apps/mapviewer/index.html?webmap=bcfb82f39c2b43cc87f917b66febc0f9&extent=-85.661 . I have added this to the map description. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 02:27, 30 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please help me? I read the “Page Statistics” for “Great Black Swamp” and found a note about “Bugs”, specifically referring to “two identical ref tags” for Charles Dickens. Since I reference different pages to the same book by Dickens (American Notes) several times in the whole article, I am not sure to which mistakes the author of that note is referring to, nor do I really know how to make the change they want. You will find the Dickens references in four sections: “Indigenous assimilation, removals, and treaties for the Swamp”; “First stages of settlement and development”; “Fate of the environment”; and “Indigenous peoples descended from northwest Ohio, today”. Thanks for checking. Please let me know what I should do to fix the bug. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 23:33, 13 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. Please see WP:CITE for a guide on how to write citations. They will include the links. When properly written out, the links have less chance of decaying. Removal of links makes it more difficult for readers to verify what they are reading. Stefen 𝕋ower_{‘s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 08:28, 31 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you help me please? I have made all the citations in the “Great Black Swamp” article properly following Wikipedia guidelines. All of them work, except for three links in three separate citations that I added this evening. They are all in paragraph twelve of the “History” section for the Great Black Swamp article, which starts with the sentence “Additional treaties”. The three bare URLs connect to the same website, Hathi Trust, but for different pages. How can I fix the three footnote links so they synch up properly with the titles? Sorry about the mistakes. Thanks for looking into this. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 05:59, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Done It was a technical issue where in the external link, the URL and the title was separated by a newline. By the way, thank you for all your reference cleanup work. The article looks much better now. Stefen 𝕋ower_{‘s got the power!!1!} ^{Gab • Gruntwerk} 17:49, 2 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please help me? I read the “Page Statistics” for “Great Black Swamp” and found a note about “Bugs”, specifically referring to “two identical ref tags” for Charles Dickens. Since I reference different pages to the same book by Dickens (American Notes) several times in the whole article, I am not sure to which mistakes the author of that note is referring to, nor do I really know how to make the change they want. Please advise. Thanks. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 07:03, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You will find the Dickens references in four sections: “Indigenous assimilation, removals, and treaties for the Swamp”; “First stages of settlement and development”; “Fate of the environment”; and “Indigenous peoples descended from northwest Ohio, today”. Thanks for checking. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 07:06, 9 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello! I have reviewed most of your edits on the Great Black Swamp and for the most part I think they look really good. I have a special love of indigenous environmental history and particularly of wetlands so it’s great to see someone else adding so much info! My edits were mainly to keep the language of the paragraph strictly focused on the swamp, not all because I thought they didn’t have value or because they were erroneous. I think breaking up the sections with subheadings will make it more readable, and have opportunities to add links to other related articles. I’m on mobile right now so I can flesh out what I mean by that later but I’m happy to keep working on this and if you’d like to submit the article for a DYK, I think it has a strong likelihood of going through!

All the best and happy editing! Kazamzam (talk) 13:00, 5 September 2025 (UTC)[reply]