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Hello - why are you placing technical requests for Metro stations (as here), when you participated in the recent RM which was closed yesterday as no consensus? You clearly are aware that that is a controversial area. I would ask you to stop making such requests. Dohn joe ( talk) 14:46, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
You should both follow the discussion link after that RM and see if you have ideas about ways to resolve the impasse, rather than just balking. Dicklyon ( talk) 14:57, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Do you live in Whitestone? The current demographics description is not true by any means. I have made the correct changes as I have been living here for over two decades now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 23:31, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, didn't realize i could add to this thread. I never had an account for wikipedia. The photo of that building is in College Point. A more relevant landmark of Whitestone would be St. Luke's Church. You also haven't responded to the demographic breakdown yet. I don't understand how you came up with this description. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 02:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Yes thank you.
Large numbers of Korean Americans, Indian Americans, Filipino Americans, and other Asian Americans have also moved into the neighborhood since 2000. There are also pockets of Greek Americans and Italian Americans, with minorities of Latin Americans, Irish Americans, and Croatian Americans.
This section is also misleading as I have mentioned. It seems that someone has a motive behind the changes made to the Whitestone page. As i have stated the leading ethnicities are Irish, Italian, Greek and then a mix of different Asian countries along with Croatian immigrants. I would hope it can be reworded to correctly represent our town correctly for anyone who looks it up. Thank you again — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 02:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Yes a neighborhood is the correct term. My source is the fact I live here, I will look for a data-backed source though. There is no source for the current information so I'd hope my revision could be left for this section.
Thank you for understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 02:49, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that, I really appreciate it, especially considering our somewhat checkered history. Best, BMK ( talk) 06:48, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Epic, surely you can see that with the title question being as far from a consensus as ever, as the closer suggested, pushing the controversial capitalized disambiguator into the article text is not an idea that makes any sense. Please stop, and help clean up that mess of made-up renaming in the articles. Dicklyon ( talk) 15:06, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I would prefer having your help if you are well versed on Wikipedia than having an edit war. Thomas Gilbert Jr. is a notable person. He was on the cover of multiple national newspapers and was the leading story on ABC and NBC nightly news.
Does there need to be a full blown Thomas Gilbert Jr. page first for that to happen?
I went to the school. With Thomas Gilbert Jr. that's 2 murderers within 200 students (including Paul Cortez), which per capita is just slightly higher than the 1 in 10,000 murderer rate. --- Correction: it's 100x higher than the national average. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.12.252 ( talk) 18:42, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
2. In regards to your question, Does there need to be a full blown Thomas Gilbert Jr. page first for that to happen?
, there needs to be at least an actual article to link to—even if it's a stub article, even if there's only a page about the crime (if the crime was really that notable), or even if it's just a business or organization that Gilbert operates.
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I would appreciate your help with this matter and would prefer the relationship not be adversarial. 1A. I had read that and am aware of the criteria. I have been aware of the criteria for a long time but am not a regular editor. To be clear, Thomas Gilber Jr. has been on the cover of The New York Times, The New York Post, New York Daily News, as well as been a leading story on syndicated national news programs such as ABC News and NBC News. I could provide links, but a quick Google search will show you there's been a lot of news around this. I generally think that most events that happen locally do not meet notability guidelines, but those that reach national reporting and the New York Times are more notable. In this instance it is concurrent with the notability guidelines for Crimes and Perpetrators - " The motivation for the crime or the execution of the crime is unusual—or has otherwise been considered noteworthy—such that it is a well-documented historic event. Generally, historic significance is indicated by sustained coverage of the event in reliable secondary sources which persists beyond contemporaneous news coverage and devotes significant attention to the individual's role" Within this the motivation for the crime was unique (a dispute over a $400 allowance) and the level of coverage which I previously discussed.
2A. Have the links I have been posting not come through? Here is a link to the New York Times article covering the homicide http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/nyregion/thomas-gilbert-hedge-fund-manager-death.html?_r=0 If this fails Googling Thomas Gilbert Jr. + New York Times will bring up the article. There are 3 New York times articles which reference this event. Side note: the movie I was a production assistant for ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripping_Forward) got no such national media coverage, but that page still has an article.
I would actually note that the redirect link for the Thomas Gilbert Jr. page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Gilbert,_Jr.&redirect=no
intentionally points to someone named Edward. Can you please help me in generating a stub for this crime/killer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.12.252 ( talk) 01:37, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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Harrias talk 12:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey, I've noticed that a couple times recently you've added hardcoded pixel widths to images in infoboxes and article texts. Unless there is a compelling case-by-case reason to do so, it is best to leave that parameter blank so that the image displays as the default size. People are viewing Wikipedia on everything from smartphone screens to 2000+ pixel monitors, so allowing users to set their personal preference ends up being incredibly important. I tend to do a lot of image editing on an external monitor that has better color correction than my laptop, and any hard-coded thumbnails (like on New Haven Line) end up being unreadably small for me. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 18:34, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
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OK. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:53, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
They are always after me, so I am dividing to resign from wikiproject anime but, I WA t to tell them why I want to resign on their talk page, but if I do I think they are going to consider it as vandalism and going to try to get me banned. I think you are the only trust worthy person. I feel like they are hounding me here. Doorknob747 ( talk) 19:13, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
It says on your user page that you are available on free node. I have used free node to contact Wikipedia help. So, I just want to know how to get in contact with you on free node. Doorknob747 ( talk) 03:05, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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I live in New York City also, and when I compare the time on your clock, your clock is one hour slow! Doorknob747 ( talk) 02:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
...what were you trying to do [1]? I used a couple of novel formatting tricks in that article so I'd like to know if they cause a problem somehow. EEng ( talk) 01:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
I've never seen it before, but I think it's a good idea, although the quote formatting looks weird to me. However, the Gage article looks good, and I can see the amount of work you've done on it (1,000+ edits!), so yes, the formatting is workable, albeit unusual. Epic Genius ( talk) 21:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi just noticed you nominated the picture I don't know what resolution they accept for feature picture but I have the original version if you think that would be better or I can save that again. thanks Simsala111 ( talk) 01:07, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Do you take photos for Wikipedia in Queens? If so, I have some ideas at Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/United_States#Queens. Are you interested in taking any of these?
Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 16:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! I checked out the map but I still don't see the old images in Queens. I took a look at Template:reqphoto and I would like to know if I can add individual coordinates to certain reqphoto tags. There are coordinates at The Japanese School of New York but they represent the current location in Connecticut, not the former locations in Queens. WhisperToMe ( talk) 14:41, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
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I'm acting on a hunch here. I have the feeling that you know Doorknob747 personally, in the real world. If so, you might want to give him some advice. With this edit, Doorknob was banned from commenting on AN/I thread which did not concern him, but he went ahead and commented on two such threads here. You should advice him to stop, to strike out his comments, and to let the banning admin, Floquenbeam, know that he won't do it again. BMK ( talk) 04:20, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate the barnstar very much.
Not too much to it, really—I took a lot of things from List of unsolved deaths (the unsolved murders part, anyway), some from List of people who disappeared mysteriously, and Category:People murdered in New York (although I didn't take every mob hit). We should probably try to limit the entries in that list to crimes that received substantial media attention or had some practical result.
I was surprised that someone had listed all these disasters that, as far as anyone knows, were not the result of someone's malicious intent (unlike the Happy Land fire, which was ... am I wrong or is that still the most deaths from one single person's criminal act in city history?) Perhaps there should be another list of disasters in New York City, where they would be appropriate.
CTTOI, it might be a good idea at some point to spin that list off. It could help shorten the article. Daniel Case ( talk) 02:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, Epicgenius. You recently reverted an edit of mine. [2] Now I realize my caption might not have been clear. Confusingly, the mosaic is located at Spring Street on the 8th Ave line, but the subject of the mosaic is the Lexington platform at Union Square. Thus it seemed relevant to the 14th Street – Union Square article. What do you think? Should I restore the image, or just leave it on the Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) article? —HorsePunchKid 22:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello to you, Epicgenius. Your favorite data entries has arrived on April 21, 2015. The passenger numbers for each NYC subway station for 2014 is now online. Enjoy! Rockies77 ( talk) 04:03, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
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The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 11:00 (noon) PDT (18:00 UTC). You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal.
VisualEditor is now substantially faster. In many cases, opening the page in VisualEditor is now faster than opening it in the wikitext editor. The new system has improved the code speed by 37% and network speed by almost 40%.
The Editing team is slowly adding auto-fill features for citations. This is currently available only at the French, Italian, and English Wikipedias. The Citoid service takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. After creating it, you will be able to change or add information to the citation, in the same way that you edit any other pre-existing citation in VisualEditor. Support for ISBNs, PMIDs, and other identifiers is planned. Later, editors will be able to improve precision and reduce the need for manual corrections by contributing to the Citoid service's definitions for each website.
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The special character inserter has been improved, based upon feedback from active users. After this, VisualEditor was made available to all users of Wikipedias on the Phase 5 list on 30 March. This affected 53 mid-size and smaller Wikipedias, including Afrikaans, Azerbaijani, Breton, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mongolian, Tatar, and Welsh.
Work continues to support languages with complex requirements, such as Korean and Japanese. These languages use input method editors ("IMEs”). Recent improvements to cursoring, backspace, and delete behavior will simplify typing in VisualEditor for these users.
The design for the image selection process is now using a "masonry fit" model. Images in the search results are displayed at the same height but at variable widths, similar to bricks of different sizes in a masonry wall, or the "packed" mode in image galleries. This style helps you find the right image by making it easier to see more details in images.
You can now drag and drop categories to re-arrange their order of appearance on the page.
The pop-up window that appears when you click on a reference, image, link, or other element, is called the "context menu". It now displays additional useful information, such as the destination of the link or the image's filename. The team has also added an explicit "Edit" button in the context menu, which helps new editors open the tool to change the item.
Invisible templates are marked by a puzzle piece icon so they can be interacted with. Users also will be able to see and edit HTML anchors now in section headings.
Users of the TemplateData GUI editor can now set a string as an optional text for the 'deprecated' property in addition to boolean value, which lets you tell users of the template what they should do instead ( T90734).
The special character inserter in VisualEditor will soon use the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki will also have the option of creating a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Instructions for customizing the list will be posted at mediawiki.org.
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The following is WikiProject Today's articles for improvement's weekly selection: Previous selections: Garbage picking • Antagonist Get involved with the TAFI project! You can... Posted by: MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) on behalf of EuroCarGT ( talk) 00:14, 6 April 2015 (UTC) • |
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Hello - why are you placing technical requests for Metro stations (as here), when you participated in the recent RM which was closed yesterday as no consensus? You clearly are aware that that is a controversial area. I would ask you to stop making such requests. Dohn joe ( talk) 14:46, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
You should both follow the discussion link after that RM and see if you have ideas about ways to resolve the impasse, rather than just balking. Dicklyon ( talk) 14:57, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello,
Do you live in Whitestone? The current demographics description is not true by any means. I have made the correct changes as I have been living here for over two decades now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 23:31, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Sorry, didn't realize i could add to this thread. I never had an account for wikipedia. The photo of that building is in College Point. A more relevant landmark of Whitestone would be St. Luke's Church. You also haven't responded to the demographic breakdown yet. I don't understand how you came up with this description. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 02:25, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Yes thank you.
Large numbers of Korean Americans, Indian Americans, Filipino Americans, and other Asian Americans have also moved into the neighborhood since 2000. There are also pockets of Greek Americans and Italian Americans, with minorities of Latin Americans, Irish Americans, and Croatian Americans.
This section is also misleading as I have mentioned. It seems that someone has a motive behind the changes made to the Whitestone page. As i have stated the leading ethnicities are Irish, Italian, Greek and then a mix of different Asian countries along with Croatian immigrants. I would hope it can be reworded to correctly represent our town correctly for anyone who looks it up. Thank you again — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 02:39, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Yes a neighborhood is the correct term. My source is the fact I live here, I will look for a data-backed source though. There is no source for the current information so I'd hope my revision could be left for this section.
Thank you for understanding. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hcsf22 ( talk • contribs) 02:49, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for that, I really appreciate it, especially considering our somewhat checkered history. Best, BMK ( talk) 06:48, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
Epic, surely you can see that with the title question being as far from a consensus as ever, as the closer suggested, pushing the controversial capitalized disambiguator into the article text is not an idea that makes any sense. Please stop, and help clean up that mess of made-up renaming in the articles. Dicklyon ( talk) 15:06, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I would prefer having your help if you are well versed on Wikipedia than having an edit war. Thomas Gilbert Jr. is a notable person. He was on the cover of multiple national newspapers and was the leading story on ABC and NBC nightly news.
Does there need to be a full blown Thomas Gilbert Jr. page first for that to happen?
I went to the school. With Thomas Gilbert Jr. that's 2 murderers within 200 students (including Paul Cortez), which per capita is just slightly higher than the 1 in 10,000 murderer rate. --- Correction: it's 100x higher than the national average. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.12.252 ( talk) 18:42, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
2. In regards to your question, Does there need to be a full blown Thomas Gilbert Jr. page first for that to happen?
, there needs to be at least an actual article to link to—even if it's a stub article, even if there's only a page about the crime (if the crime was really that notable), or even if it's just a business or organization that Gilbert operates.
Epic Genius (
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23:57, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
I would appreciate your help with this matter and would prefer the relationship not be adversarial. 1A. I had read that and am aware of the criteria. I have been aware of the criteria for a long time but am not a regular editor. To be clear, Thomas Gilber Jr. has been on the cover of The New York Times, The New York Post, New York Daily News, as well as been a leading story on syndicated national news programs such as ABC News and NBC News. I could provide links, but a quick Google search will show you there's been a lot of news around this. I generally think that most events that happen locally do not meet notability guidelines, but those that reach national reporting and the New York Times are more notable. In this instance it is concurrent with the notability guidelines for Crimes and Perpetrators - " The motivation for the crime or the execution of the crime is unusual—or has otherwise been considered noteworthy—such that it is a well-documented historic event. Generally, historic significance is indicated by sustained coverage of the event in reliable secondary sources which persists beyond contemporaneous news coverage and devotes significant attention to the individual's role" Within this the motivation for the crime was unique (a dispute over a $400 allowance) and the level of coverage which I previously discussed.
2A. Have the links I have been posting not come through? Here is a link to the New York Times article covering the homicide http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/06/nyregion/thomas-gilbert-hedge-fund-manager-death.html?_r=0 If this fails Googling Thomas Gilbert Jr. + New York Times will bring up the article. There are 3 New York times articles which reference this event. Side note: the movie I was a production assistant for ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripping_Forward) got no such national media coverage, but that page still has an article.
I would actually note that the redirect link for the Thomas Gilbert Jr. page ( http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Thomas_Gilbert,_Jr.&redirect=no
intentionally points to someone named Edward. Can you please help me in generating a stub for this crime/killer? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.243.12.252 ( talk) 01:37, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
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Harrias talk 12:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
Hey, I've noticed that a couple times recently you've added hardcoded pixel widths to images in infoboxes and article texts. Unless there is a compelling case-by-case reason to do so, it is best to leave that parameter blank so that the image displays as the default size. People are viewing Wikipedia on everything from smartphone screens to 2000+ pixel monitors, so allowing users to set their personal preference ends up being incredibly important. I tend to do a lot of image editing on an external monitor that has better color correction than my laptop, and any hard-coded thumbnails (like on New Haven Line) end up being unreadably small for me. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 18:34, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello, Epicgenius.
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OK. Daniel Case ( talk) 19:53, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
They are always after me, so I am dividing to resign from wikiproject anime but, I WA t to tell them why I want to resign on their talk page, but if I do I think they are going to consider it as vandalism and going to try to get me banned. I think you are the only trust worthy person. I feel like they are hounding me here. Doorknob747 ( talk) 19:13, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
It says on your user page that you are available on free node. I have used free node to contact Wikipedia help. So, I just want to know how to get in contact with you on free node. Doorknob747 ( talk) 03:05, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
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I live in New York City also, and when I compare the time on your clock, your clock is one hour slow! Doorknob747 ( talk) 02:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
...what were you trying to do [1]? I used a couple of novel formatting tricks in that article so I'd like to know if they cause a problem somehow. EEng ( talk) 01:08, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
I've never seen it before, but I think it's a good idea, although the quote formatting looks weird to me. However, the Gage article looks good, and I can see the amount of work you've done on it (1,000+ edits!), so yes, the formatting is workable, albeit unusual. Epic Genius ( talk) 21:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi just noticed you nominated the picture I don't know what resolution they accept for feature picture but I have the original version if you think that would be better or I can save that again. thanks Simsala111 ( talk) 01:07, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi! Do you take photos for Wikipedia in Queens? If so, I have some ideas at Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/United_States#Queens. Are you interested in taking any of these?
Thanks, WhisperToMe ( talk) 16:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for the tip! I checked out the map but I still don't see the old images in Queens. I took a look at Template:reqphoto and I would like to know if I can add individual coordinates to certain reqphoto tags. There are coordinates at The Japanese School of New York but they represent the current location in Connecticut, not the former locations in Queens. WhisperToMe ( talk) 14:41, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
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I'm acting on a hunch here. I have the feeling that you know Doorknob747 personally, in the real world. If so, you might want to give him some advice. With this edit, Doorknob was banned from commenting on AN/I thread which did not concern him, but he went ahead and commented on two such threads here. You should advice him to stop, to strike out his comments, and to let the banning admin, Floquenbeam, know that he won't do it again. BMK ( talk) 04:20, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
I appreciate the barnstar very much.
Not too much to it, really—I took a lot of things from List of unsolved deaths (the unsolved murders part, anyway), some from List of people who disappeared mysteriously, and Category:People murdered in New York (although I didn't take every mob hit). We should probably try to limit the entries in that list to crimes that received substantial media attention or had some practical result.
I was surprised that someone had listed all these disasters that, as far as anyone knows, were not the result of someone's malicious intent (unlike the Happy Land fire, which was ... am I wrong or is that still the most deaths from one single person's criminal act in city history?) Perhaps there should be another list of disasters in New York City, where they would be appropriate.
CTTOI, it might be a good idea at some point to spin that list off. It could help shorten the article. Daniel Case ( talk) 02:56, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi there, Epicgenius. You recently reverted an edit of mine. [2] Now I realize my caption might not have been clear. Confusingly, the mosaic is located at Spring Street on the 8th Ave line, but the subject of the mosaic is the Lexington platform at Union Square. Thus it seemed relevant to the 14th Street – Union Square article. What do you think? Should I restore the image, or just leave it on the Spring Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) article? —HorsePunchKid 22:11, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
Hello to you, Epicgenius. Your favorite data entries has arrived on April 21, 2015. The passenger numbers for each NYC subway station for 2014 is now online. Enjoy! Rockies77 ( talk) 04:03, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
Hi Epicgenius, thank you for creating Humanitarian response to the 2015 Nepal earthquake. I am writing this from Kathmandu. Best, 202.166.221.86 ( talk) 05:32, 30 April 2015 (UTC)