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Given the sentence from the article "Union Square is also the site of an important subway station; 14th Street-Union Square, a stop on the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, and W trains", should the wikilink shown here point at 14th Street-Union Square (BMT Broadway Line station) or 14th Street-Union Square (IRT Lexington Avenue Line station). Thanks for the clarification. Courtland 03:53, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
I sincerely doubt the RNC protest was the most notable protest ever to start in Union Square. In any case, such an assertion can't stand without some citation. I altered to make it clear that this was perhaps the most notable recent protest to start there. If anyone has hard figures or a reliable historical perspective, I invite them to add it. -- Tcatts 18:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
You are right - Union Square has many notable protests. Appropriate change. If anyone has photos of either the RNC or the Camp Casey protests, please upload. It would be worthwhile to have a separate section similar to the Greenmarket one for the protests and vigils that are oft-held there. -- DavidShankBone 23:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
The article lacks knowledge of the rich historical significance of the square.-- Gkklein 14:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
There are many sculptures within Union Square, perhaps there should be a separate sub-section specifically for the art of Union Square? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.173.210.195 ( talk) 04:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
I added a source for the founding date of 1832. I can't find any sources that say that it opened in 1939. As to the architects, I really can't find anything on Olmsted and Vaux having been the architects. Can we get some sources before we start changing things? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 03:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Umm, a section is to be called "Greenmarket and local businesses"? Why? "Commerce" more precisely describes a section that is all about people selling things, while some parts are not about greenmarket and not about local business, unless a branch of a chain store like Staples be regarded as one or the other. "Commerce" is also shorter. Jim.henderson ( talk) 03:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
If you want to try seperating the greenmarket stuff from the stuff about local stores into two seperate sections, I suppose that's worth trying, but, again, "commerce" is not really the nub of that information either, which is more about the makeup of the area. Perhaps the greenmarket info could stand on its own, and the local business info be integrated into a general section about the neighborhood surrounding the square. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 06:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
This article should briefly mention a thing or two about the birth of hip hop music and culture and the use of union square by many talented legendary acts to project their style and music —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.113.143 ( talk) 00:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
the article at this writing includes incomplete citations, employs multiple date styles and has various assertions, including entire paragraphs without attributions. i have attempted to cure some, and have been categorically reversed.-- 96.232.126.111 ( talk) 18:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa ( talk) 23:51, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
User:Beyond My Ken disputes that my additions to the chess scene are not "relevant". I would like some further discussion on this issue. I do not think I am giving undue weight to the scene due to the large visibility that the chess scene has in the southwest corner of the square, and the fact that it is well documented. It has in fact, expanded in size in recent years (due to the migration from Washington Square Park, and Beyond My Ken is not responding to my messages on his user talk page. Yanping Nora Soong ( talk) 22:27, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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Add to the social and political activism section: .Emma Goldman"s contribution .Black Lives Matter Movement
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/birthcontrolpioneer.html https://www.britannica.com/event/Comstock-Ac
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I plan on expanding the history section of the Union Square article to include some history on labor strikes and nickelodeons which existed in the early 20th century. I want to expand the "social and political activism" section of the article because a bulk of it only mentions events which happened in the 19th century and then pretty much jumps to modern day.
I would include info from:
Monkey Business in Union Square: A Cultural Analysis of the Klein's-Ohrbach's Strikes of 1934-5
Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors
Piotr Lapinski ( talk) 03:32, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
"In the early years of the park a fence surrounded the square's central oval planted with radiating walks lined with trees."
What is that intended to say? How can an oval, or indeed anything, be "planted with radiating walks"? Harfarhs ( talk) 17:43, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
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Given the sentence from the article "Union Square is also the site of an important subway station; 14th Street-Union Square, a stop on the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, and W trains", should the wikilink shown here point at 14th Street-Union Square (BMT Broadway Line station) or 14th Street-Union Square (IRT Lexington Avenue Line station). Thanks for the clarification. Courtland 03:53, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
I sincerely doubt the RNC protest was the most notable protest ever to start in Union Square. In any case, such an assertion can't stand without some citation. I altered to make it clear that this was perhaps the most notable recent protest to start there. If anyone has hard figures or a reliable historical perspective, I invite them to add it. -- Tcatts 18:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
You are right - Union Square has many notable protests. Appropriate change. If anyone has photos of either the RNC or the Camp Casey protests, please upload. It would be worthwhile to have a separate section similar to the Greenmarket one for the protests and vigils that are oft-held there. -- DavidShankBone 23:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
The article lacks knowledge of the rich historical significance of the square.-- Gkklein 14:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
There are many sculptures within Union Square, perhaps there should be a separate sub-section specifically for the art of Union Square? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.173.210.195 ( talk) 04:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC).
I added a source for the founding date of 1832. I can't find any sources that say that it opened in 1939. As to the architects, I really can't find anything on Olmsted and Vaux having been the architects. Can we get some sources before we start changing things? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 03:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
Umm, a section is to be called "Greenmarket and local businesses"? Why? "Commerce" more precisely describes a section that is all about people selling things, while some parts are not about greenmarket and not about local business, unless a branch of a chain store like Staples be regarded as one or the other. "Commerce" is also shorter. Jim.henderson ( talk) 03:47, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
If you want to try seperating the greenmarket stuff from the stuff about local stores into two seperate sections, I suppose that's worth trying, but, again, "commerce" is not really the nub of that information either, which is more about the makeup of the area. Perhaps the greenmarket info could stand on its own, and the local business info be integrated into a general section about the neighborhood surrounding the square. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) ( talk / cont) 06:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
This article should briefly mention a thing or two about the birth of hip hop music and culture and the use of union square by many talented legendary acts to project their style and music —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.113.143 ( talk) 00:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
the article at this writing includes incomplete citations, employs multiple date styles and has various assertions, including entire paragraphs without attributions. i have attempted to cure some, and have been categorically reversed.-- 96.232.126.111 ( talk) 18:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa ( talk) 23:51, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
User:Beyond My Ken disputes that my additions to the chess scene are not "relevant". I would like some further discussion on this issue. I do not think I am giving undue weight to the scene due to the large visibility that the chess scene has in the southwest corner of the square, and the fact that it is well documented. It has in fact, expanded in size in recent years (due to the migration from Washington Square Park, and Beyond My Ken is not responding to my messages on his user talk page. Yanping Nora Soong ( talk) 22:27, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
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Add to the social and political activism section: .Emma Goldman"s contribution .Black Lives Matter Movement
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/goldman/MeetEmmaGoldman/birthcontrolpioneer.html https://www.britannica.com/event/Comstock-Ac
```` — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Jordanne Brown (
talk •
contribs) 02:12, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
I plan on expanding the history section of the Union Square article to include some history on labor strikes and nickelodeons which existed in the early 20th century. I want to expand the "social and political activism" section of the article because a bulk of it only mentions events which happened in the 19th century and then pretty much jumps to modern day.
I would include info from:
Monkey Business in Union Square: A Cultural Analysis of the Klein's-Ohrbach's Strikes of 1934-5
Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors
Piotr Lapinski ( talk) 03:32, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
"In the early years of the park a fence surrounded the square's central oval planted with radiating walks lined with trees."
What is that intended to say? How can an oval, or indeed anything, be "planted with radiating walks"? Harfarhs ( talk) 17:43, 16 July 2021 (UTC)