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not so formal, but if you need to know about green valley lake, I think it will help you a bit. I will try to improve it the best I can. I only have a "B-" in 8th grade english, so cut me some slack. It should also be bumped up to mid-importance, I mean it is The highest town on the mountain range. It should also be under "start". It is in some kind of form, although it does need much improvement. Note: this is the same text I put on the Green Valley Lake Talk page.
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Well, I'm sorry it's so bad. I wrote it, and I'm only 13. If you can write a better one, fine. Do so. But I bet you don't have a vacation home or live there, not do you? I'm going up there next week, I'll see if I can fix it after I get some more information on the town up there. And I know that it's
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and the bear is a little larger. It also has a transparent background instead of white and the image is not exactly square. Feel free to modify the size or placement of the bear if you don't like it; you might also want to put a white background or square the image canvas. Modifications can be done
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Says that Moraga was responsible for naming many cities, among them Modesto. However, evidence suggests that Modesto was named after William Ralston in 1870, after he refused to have the town named after himself ("es muy modesto"). Moraga explored California in the 1810s, hence it seems unlikely
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page after first seeing this discussion, since some of the links that were supposedly to articles about settlements were actually to geographical features and/or the opposite; I also added a few more HMBs. Although I didn't change the redirect at the time, I agree with BlankVerse. It would be
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The basic idea behind article titles on the Knowledge is to facilitate 'accidental linkage'. One big problem, however, is what to do when there are multiple articles that could use the same title. For some titles, it's pretty obvious which article should go with the title (see
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There is a peer review open for University High and comments would be appreciated from this project. I've made an assessment request as well, but it would be great if we could get comments from all of the wikiprojects that this article is a part of.
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Text will accompany it. This is just the initial image which can be still tweaked. If you are in favor, you should visit the link in my initial message and vote. Please see other proposals to indicate you should signify support/non-support.
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Here is the second proposed design. The outline of the state is meant to show through just as the state flag does. The barnstar is an enlargement of the star in our flag and sits approximately over the state
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Here is another design. The outline of the state is meant to show through just as the state flag does. The barnstar is an enlargement of the star in our flag and sits approximately over the state capital.
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Even though you went through and changed the wikilinks, that doesn't change the underlying fact that for the title Half Moon Bay, numerous editors have already essentially expressed their opinion that
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to help me but he seems to very opposed to any suggestion. By no means is this a final image. But, its intent is to be awarded as a barnstar to California related articles. I am a
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for a proposed WP:CAL project award. It would be awarded to persons who have made significant contributions to this project. If successful, I will need help creating its template.
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You need to get the nomenclature right. If this is a WP Award, it's not a barnstar, the requirements are different. Also, the image needs to be more in the shape of a star. --
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My intent is genuine. I just need help to get the wording correct to reflect it is a barnstar award. If someone could help rewrite the proposal, I would appreciate it.
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as it is the true diambiguation. It seems silly to call the HMB, HMB (bay) IMHO. On the new article, you would create the link to the new disambiguation named page.
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always meant a geographical feature, it seems to me that things would be clearer. I suppose that a unique place name/feature name pair could be simplified, as
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disirable to have a convention for naming geographical features that was different than for naming settlements, so the disambiguation would be obvious. If
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I ended up squaring the canvas, adding a white background, and defaulting the size to 100 pixels (although it will scale to any size with high quality).
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Definitely encouraging cross project participation here, as a number of prominent Wright designed buildings are located in California.
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reverted changes I made to reflect that this barnstar is intended to California related articles. Stars come in all shapes and sizes on
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I checked that prior to my post. The first 49 all linked to the city. There was one off. The disambiguation should take of the rest.
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storage page. The second proposed image has a barnstar center and takes the shape of the star in the California flag. I have asked
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In essence, if it is properly called Half Moon Bay, which I believe it is, I would suggest renaming the disambiguation page to
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No single state has a barnstar. Make it a WP Award, make it star shaped and READ what people are saying. I am a member of
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for the other ten geographic place names around the world named Half Moon Bay). I've now moved the article on the bay to
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Great idea. However the sign just looks blurry. Maybe it souold be repaced with some text, like "California Barnstar". -
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This is no longer high priority as April 12 has passed. Still looks like an interesting building, though. Thanks.--
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are, but even then there might be a discussion about which one got the short title in areas where the
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Check the "What links here" now: there are four articles. All the rest have been changed to link to
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I like the third design best, but really think the vear should be over the star in the center. --
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Dear Wikipedians, a list of possible California-related articles found by bot is available at
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The Article "Sonoma County, California" has been submitted as a featured article candidate.
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peer review now closed, we recieved no input from this project but we would welcome it!
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WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Frank Lloyd Wright Collaboration
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If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the
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Dont be discouraged. See my notes on the article's talk page. Best Regards.
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Anyone have any objection to converting the WikiProject banner for use in
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link to this one, but don't because there was no page here until today. --
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A final vote is being held on the WPA - you can see it and vote on it
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That would work for me. Now, we just need the template. Hint, hint.
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So, just overwrite the disambiguation page? Or should I put it at
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Proposal for the creation of a WikiProject Award for this project
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The WikiProject California Award second proposed image only
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I just noticed today that, though we have an article on
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always meant a city, town or other settlement, while
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Index

Knowledge talk:WikiProject California
archive
current talk page
ArchiveĀ 1
ArchiveĀ 2
ArchiveĀ 3
ArchiveĀ 4
ArchiveĀ 5
Wigwag (railroad)
featured article review
featured quality
here
here
LuciferMorgan
23:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
The WikiProject California Award first proposed image only
The WikiProject California Award second proposed image only
The WikiProject California Award proposed image only
A very rough draft
WikiProject California Award
Ronbo76
16:18, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
homage
North Star
up for deletion
Scouter
Sig
16:51, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Will Beback
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