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:@GeoFAXsafety79 I recommend checking the page's history before making revisions, since other editors may be at work. <b style="background-image:linear-gradient(45deg,#268bd2,#6c71c4,#d33682,#dc322f);border:1px solid #fdf6e3;border-radius:1em;font-variant:small-caps;padding:0 1em;color:#fdf6e3;">🌊 oceanloop</b> 06:03, 28 August 2025 (UTC)

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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)
::You do not need to add a source references for images, since it is already on Commons. Thank you. <b style="background-image:linear-gradient(45deg,#268bd2,#6c71c4,#d33682,#dc322f);border:1px solid #fdf6e3;border-radius:1em;font-variant:small-caps;padding:0 1em;color:#fdf6e3;">🌊 oceanloop</b> 14:42, 28 August 2025 (UTC)
:::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)

Wikipedia and copyright



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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)
::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&nbsp;<span style="color:red">🍁</span>&nbsp;(talk) 02:27, 30 August 2025 (UTC)
:::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)
::::Please disregard my last message. Someone else helped with the edit. Thanks! GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 10:47, 14 October 2025 (UTC)

Please add proper citations



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. <span style="color: #1b770d;">'''Stefen <span style="white-space: nowrap;">𝕋ower<sub>'s got the power!!1!</sub></span>'''</span> <sup>''Gab'' • Gruntwerk ↗</sup> 08:28, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

: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)
::{{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. <span style="color: #1b770d;">'''Stefen <span style="white-space: nowrap;">𝕋ower<sub>'s got the power!!1!</sub></span>'''</span> <sup>''Gab'' • Gruntwerk ↗</sup> 17:49, 2 September 2025 (UTC)
:::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)
::::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)
:::::Thanks for helping me with the Dickens reference. I tried to add an image this evening from the Ohio EPA, but a person (EurekaLott) sent me a copyright violation notice, which stated that Ohio EPA images are copyright protected. I was surprised by this, since I actually have an email from the Ohio EPA stating that their images are in the public domain. It is dated from September 8th 2025. It stated that their images are technically public products. I had already asked them about this topic and had requested their permission to use their images. I went and took down the image I had posted tonight of an algal bloom in Lake Erie, but I wanted to check with you and make sure about this issue that images from the Ohio EPA are not allowed, even though they told me in an email that their images are images are public domain. Please help me better understand the rules. Thanks. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 05:23, 17 October 2025 (UTC)

Great Black Swamp (and hi!)



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)

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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | Very impressed with your work on Great Black Swamp ↗. Keep up the good work, and looking forward to seeing what more you can teach us about lakes ↗, rivers ↗, deltas ↗, estuaries ↗, swamps ↗, marshes ↗, bogs ↗, and fens ↗! (Unless one or more of those has failed to pique your interest). Let me know if there's anything I can assist with at any point, I'd love to help you on the historical/cultural/developmental side of things. CSGinger14 (talk) 04:56, 25 December 2025 (UTC)
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:Thanks for the star. I appreciate it. Will keep you posted. Have a blessed holiday. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 10:54, 27 December 2025 (UTC)
::@GeoFAXsafety79, I might suggest that you look into nominating this article for Good Article Status ↗. Looking at what you've produced thus far, and the fact that you've still found ways to keep improving it, I'm pretty confident you could get it to pass fairly easily. Let me know if there's anything I can assist with!
::CSGinger14 (talk) 02:11, 22 May 2026 (UTC)
:::Thanks for the recommendation. I recently published a new article: Grand Kankakee Marsh ↗. Feel free to take a look. Edits are welcome there and at the Great Black Swamp ↗ for you and anyone else, as long as the edits work. If you would like to, you yourself can nominate one or both for GA status. I have also linked some wetland articles by other editors in the See Also sections in both Great Black Swamp and Grand Kankakee Marsh articles, if you want to see what else is out there. Good luck to you in your work, and enjoy Wikipedia. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 07:26, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

"In progress" templates



If you do any more extensive edits like you've done, you can use the templates {{tl|in use}} or {{tl|under construction}}, listed at WP:TC ↗; they will likely be more visible than at edit summary comment. (Also, I made a small edit ↗ to the Grand Kankakee article.) Mapsax (talk) 04:21, 10 April 2026 (UTC)

:Thanks for the tip, Mapsax. I am going to use the under construction signage. Your edits are welcome. I am mostly just reducing the word count and footnote count at this point. I truly appreciate the help, and I hope readers enjoy the Grand Kankakee Marsh and value its article resources. GeoFAXsafety79 (talk) 04:33, 10 April 2026 (UTC)
::No problem. Just remember to remove the template when you're done. :) Mapsax (talk) 05:09, 10 April 2026 (UTC)