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Driggs Street changed to Driggs Avenue in Williamsburg, Bkn
Seasons Greetings, Doug. I wanted to give you a quick heads up that I changed something in your recent contribution to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The street is called Driggs Avenue, (altho in the distant past it may have at one time been called Driggs Street. I've walked down Driggs Ave hundreds of times. Never knew who it was named after before reading about it in your contribution. Hope you and your family have a healthy and festive holiday season. Netherzone (talk) 18:57, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Netherzone, Thanks for making this change. I thought it was interesting that the pilot-boat Edmund Driggs was named after an old Williamsburg resident with the same name. Apparently, he was a well respected man that contributed to growth of the town. Many of the Sandy Hook pilots came from Brooklyn, so it makes sense they wanted to name a boat after him. I only wish I could have found more citations about this connection between the boat and the man. Take care and Happy Holidays! --Greg Henderson (talk) 20:06, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
- Greghenderson2006, The Brooklyn Eagle is often a good source for historical info on Williamsburg and Greenpoint (which was a major shipbuilding neighborhood). There are also several other resources for North Brooklyn history. I'll see if I can put together a list for you. Of course there is always the Brooklyn Historical Society & the Queens Historical Society (can't remember if those are the official names, but if you have difficulty finding them, ping me.) Also the New York Public Library is a fabulous source of information as are the university libraries. And they are very helpful! Sometimes city agencies are good resources for historical facts, for example if you want to find out more about the house where a pilot boat operator lived, you can look it up on the NYC Department of Buildings site. Also there are tax photos of every building that are available. Netherzone (talk) 00:00, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'll check them out. Some of my go to sites are https://www.newspapers.com; https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov; https://www.fultonhistory.com; https://archive.org; and https://bklyn.newspapers.com. I like www.newspapers.com, the best but requires a WP Library registration (wikipedialibrary). --Greg Henderson (talk) 00:46, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- Greghenderson2006, WP Library is great! Do you have a WP library card to Newspapers.com? It's easy to get one if not. (I'm guessing you do). Fultonhistory.com is great, and thnx for letting me know about bkyn.newspapers.com, did not know about that. Also, there is WikiProject that may be of interest: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Resource_Exchange/Resource_Request Netherzone (talk) 02:03, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks, I'll check them out. Some of my go to sites are https://www.newspapers.com; https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov; https://www.fultonhistory.com; https://archive.org; and https://bklyn.newspapers.com. I like www.newspapers.com, the best but requires a WP Library registration (wikipedialibrary). --Greg Henderson (talk) 00:46, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
- Greghenderson2006, The Brooklyn Eagle is often a good source for historical info on Williamsburg and Greenpoint (which was a major shipbuilding neighborhood). There are also several other resources for North Brooklyn history. I'll see if I can put together a list for you. Of course there is always the Brooklyn Historical Society & the Queens Historical Society (can't remember if those are the official names, but if you have difficulty finding them, ping me.) Also the New York Public Library is a fabulous source of information as are the university libraries. And they are very helpful! Sometimes city agencies are good resources for historical facts, for example if you want to find out more about the house where a pilot boat operator lived, you can look it up on the NYC Department of Buildings site. Also there are tax photos of every building that are available. Netherzone (talk) 00:00, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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I have been adding your latest pilot boats to this list, but feel free to add them yourself as you finish them, if you like. The idea is to promote peer review of new articles by sailor/editors to improve them! - Ahunt (talk) 00:06, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
- OK, thanks, I will do that. --Greg Henderson (talk) 00:12, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
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Archiving talk pages
Can I ask why you have started archiving talk pages where you have made WP:COI edit requests? 1 2 3 The recommendation to archive article talk pages is generally only when they are too long (>75KB). Routinely archiving completed edit requests is not standard practice here and could be seen as an attempt to hide the number of such requests being made or the nature of them. I would ask you to reconsider this practice. Melcous (talk) 22:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
- @Melcous: Thanks for asking. I thought it makes for a cleaner page once edit requests are done. Large talk pages are difficult to read and contain stale discussions. Someone can easily go to the archive to see previously completed requests. I was not aware that there is a 75 KB guideline. But it does say "75 KB or has numerous resolved or stale discussions. Please do not unarchive a thread that was effectively closed, instead, you can start a new discussion and link to the archived discussion. --Greg Henderson (talk) 22:24, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
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