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WikiProject Award

		WikiProject National Register of Historic Places Award
		This award has been bestowed upon you, AgnosticPreachersKid by IvoShandor in recognition of quality content and stub creation for articles within the scope of WikiProject National Register of Historic Places. Keep up the excellent work. IvoShandor (talk) 08:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

I thought you had earned this. :) IvoShandor (talk) 08:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks! Can you tell I'm a little addicted to this project? ;-) After looking at your NRHP article contributions, it appears you've deserved this award about 50 times. Cheers. APK ^{yada yada} 08:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

My addiction comes and goes but I take a lot of road trips and visit a lot of NRHP sites so I like to do the articles, I've learned a lot about local history that way. I got the award back when it first came out so no worries there, I have enough of those to pump anyone's ego anyway. I keep an eye on the new article at WP:NRHP because I like to see the new photos and I noticed your numerous contributions, like the nickname btw. Up late and rambling, the bane of the third shifter on a day off. :) IvoShandor (talk) 09:08, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's why I like the project. Like one of my userboxes says, I'm a history buff and I've learned alot about Wake County, North Carolina (especially Raleigh) history from the project. I'm sure my username raises a few eyebrows among select editors, but contrary to some accusations I've received, I'm not POV-pushin on any religious articles. In fact, I've created articles about churches. On a side note, I see you're a member of the ghost town project. I was looking at this list yesterday and I plan on writing articles about Brunswick Town and Buffalo City. The first won't be a problem because I've found numerous sources. The other might be an issue. I've only found these sources so far: 1, 2, picture. I assume ghost cities are automatically notable, like NRHPs. APK ^{yada yada} 09:32, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Make sure you do a Google Books search for your missing towns, they are often written about in older pubic domain local histories, a lot of these texts are full view on Google Books. I think all settlements are pretty much automatically notable. Of course, the definition of ghost towns is usually up in the air. If there are no buildings I usually call it a defunct town or village or whatever if there are buildings and no people, to me that fits the definition of a traditional ghost town (last time I checked that article was pretty much an unreferenced heap of crap just FYI). For Illinois we have Category:Ghost towns in Illinois with a sub cat of Category:Defunct towns in Illinois. It works well, though settlements might be a better word than "towns" because of the legal definition that "town" has in most jurisdictions. IvoShandor (talk) 09:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)