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)

Answer As of our recent state convention, that map is obsolete. We abolished the metro regions and that map is the metro regions. I am currently in the process of fulling updating the Louisiana Page as well as the Parish Committee's that exsist within Louisiana. This is a work in progress until after our next meeting in July. As far a Louisiana, im staying on top of things. Thanks for all your help.

Sincerely,
Reed Ebarb,
LPL Party Secretary.

Would this be as good a historical example of the defunct metro regions as any? What was their purpose, why were they dissolved, how frequently were they updated, and when were they first established? This seems like exactly the sort of thing we should document here. 8) -- Strangelv 13:11, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Biographies

As you may have noticed, I've been using a bot to generate biographical stubs. Right now I'm trying to concentrate on people from the 1970s, but almost all of the real work is in assembling the CSV (spreadsheet) file.

My current columns are:

• FULLNAME -- fully presented name
• NAME -- personal name, usually first name or nickname
• LAST -- last name
• USE_FULL -- if Y: article name should be fully presented name, otherwise NAME and LAST will be used
• GENDER -- not actually used at the moment but this may change. M, F, or blank.
• DOB -- Month and/or year of birth, if known. May need to enter with an apostrophe -- such as 'April 1930 -- to get your spreadsheet to cooperate
• DOD -- Month and/or year of when we lost them, if known and applicable. May need to enter with an apostrophe -- such as 'November 2000
• AGE -- not actually used right now, and not applicable for people who are still alive
• MASTER LABEL -- candidate, candidate and activist, state chair, et c.; special handling if it's simply 'candidate' -- other special handling is pending.
• SUMMARY -- A second paragraph. Ideally for stuff that isn't asked for elsewhere in the spreadsheet.
• ORG POS -- organizational positions and when, separated by semicolons. such as:

Chair, Libertarian Party of Michigan, 1973;Vice Chair, Libertarian Party of Michigan, c. 1975;Chair, Libertarian Party of Michigan, 1975 - 1978

• DELEGATE -- delegate to what and when -- not actually used right now but would be easy to implement, otherwise I may depreciate it.
• WORK -- this one gets slightly complicated.

Type of work,work and year;type of second work,name of work and year

Actually, I don't have any special handling for different works. So if it's paintings, books, articles, manuals, conferences, or symphonies it's all processed the same. Whatever the name of the type of work -- possibly with a pluralizing s appended to it -- is the header in the generated article. It's very open-ended and could probably be easily gamed to include other non-work topics.

• CANDIDACIES -- offices they've run for and when, separated by semicolons such as:

U.S. Senate, North Dakota, 1974 (Independent);U.S. Senate, North Dakota, 1988

• PUB OFFICES -- public offices held with dates if known, separated by semicolons.
• AFFILIATION -- organizational affiliations. Not presently used as everyone here would be 'libertarian' almost by definition (actually this won't be true if I stop exclusively picking people who are to feed into it). This won't be the case when I use this with other wikis, though
• PROJECTS -- not used and I can't actually remember what this is here for. Possibly vestigial at this point.
• LINKS -- links in he form of URL,description, separated by semicolons.
• IMAGE -- name of image, if any. Image must be uploaded separately.
• TALK -- add this to the talk page, in the format of heading,discussion, separated by semicolons for multiple topics. For example:

Question,Is this the same Kenneth Garber who's Director of Marketing for Cato?

• QUOTES -- quotes attributed to this person, separated by semicolons. may need a solution for when the quote includes a semicolon...
• REDIRECTS -- forms of this person's name that won't be automatically guessed by AutoBio

Please let me know if you believe you can make use of this program. 8) Actually, if you can think of another sort of thing to automatically feed into a bot please let me know. All I'll need is the spreadsheet asd maybe column explanations to set the bot up to digest.

Maybe I need to add the column descriptions to AutoBio's user page. -- Strangelv 13:11, 23 July 2012 (UTC)