User:TheOptopolis

My name's Optopolis... or at least, that's what I typically go by on the web. I document history of the urban environment, especially regarding retail in the areas of Wyoming, Colorado, and Nebraska. My connection to Bluepages goes back to when it was mainly made up of a couple of Google sheets listing Kmart and Sears stores across the country. If you'd like to contact me with questions or concerns, feel free to reach out to me on my talk page.

Tools for wiki

Coordinates for info boxes

• GeoLocator - Geo-referencing and geo-tagging especially for maps in info boxes
• Google Maps - For getting coordinates to use in GeoLocator

Website research

• Internet Archive/Wayback Machine

Researching stuff that just works

• Google search for print newspapers
• Google search for online news
• Google Search for books
• Google Scholar
• JSTOR

More about Bluepages

• Reschultzed

Important notes (so you can know better when you edit articles in Bluepages)

• INFOBOXES: The "replaced"/"replaced by" sections in infoboxes is meant to be used for relocations; if a store (i.e. Kmart 4413) moves to a new location/is replaced by another store (i.e. Kmart 3891), this info goes into one of those sections. If you are adding information regarding the most recent tenant before or the next tenant/occupant following a business, use the "previous"/"next" sections in the infobox (i.e. The Bicycle Shoppe was the next tenant that followed in the location of Cheyenne's original Sears location.
• PAGE CREATION: You can create a page by searching exactly what you want the URL to be (i.e. Sears (1813 Carey Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming) or Dillard's 999 (West) (Cheyenne, Wyoming) as existing examples), then create the page from there. You can also just visit the link you want to create (i.e. https://www.bluepageswiki.org/wiki/Sears_(1813_Carey_Avenue,_Cheyenne,_Wyoming) or https://www.bluepageswiki.org/wiki/Dillard%27s_999_(West)_(Cheyenne,_Wyoming)) and create the page from there. If you have an account with Bluepages, one way I like to do it is create the link in my user page, save the edit, then visit the new red link and create the page. P.S. Please do not use theOptopolis user page (this page you are on right now) to create these pages.

Page/Article creation

DO NOT ADD ANY PAGES WITHIN PAGE/ARTICLE CREATION! ONLY OPTOPOLIS IS ALLOWED TO ADD PAGES HERE!

A list of some articles on Bluepages (oldest to newest)

• Sears (1813 Carey Avenue, Cheyenne, Wyoming), Sears (116 East 17th Street, Cheyenne, Wyoming), Sears Hometown (3575 East Lincolnway, Cheyenne, Wyoming)
• Frontier Mall (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
• Uptown Scottsbluff (Scottsbluff, Nebraska)
• Dillard's 999 (West) (Cheyenne, Wyoming)
• Cheyenne, Wyoming
• Family Dollar 5901
• Worland, Wyoming
• Sutherlands 4307
• JAX 9, JAX 8, JAX 7, JAX 6, JAX 5, JAX 4, JAX 3
• Sutherlands 3210, Sutherlands 3123, Sutherlands 3213, Sutherlands 1250, Sutherlands 2816, Sutherlands 1224, Sutherlands 2208, Sutherlands (2701 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado)
• JOANN (2839 South College Ave, Fort Collins, Colorado)
• Sutherlands 2222, Sutherlands (1901 East Prospect Road, Fort Collins, Colorado)
• Albertson's (3745 East Lincolnway, Cheyenne, Wyoming)
• Taco John's 5, Taco John's 1005
• Hobby Lobby 75, Hobby Lobby 20, Hobby Lobby 64, Hobby Lobby 111, Hobby Lobby 61, Hobby Lobby 9, Hobby Lobby 16Hobby Lobby 4, Hobby Lobby 6, Hobby Lobby 15, Hobby Lobby 69, Hobby Lobby 124, Hobby Lobby 7, Hobby Lobby 2, Hobby Lobby 25, Hobby Lobby 13, Hobby Lobby 5, Hobby Lobby 3, Hobby Lobby 11
• Some conflicts...
• JAX 2, JAX 1
• arc Thrift Store (2701 South College Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado)
• Sutherlands 1217

Templates

• Template:Infobox JAX
• Template:Infobox Sutherlands
• Template:Infobox arc Thrift Store

Tables

• Bluepages:Tables/JAX
• Bluepages:Tables/Sutherlands
• Bluepages:Tables/Taco Johns
• Bluepages:Tables/arc Thrift Store