User talk:DanTD/Archive. November - December 2016

Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge
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Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
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Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
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Church in Southampton on agenda for nomination to NRHP
Dan,

At the State Historic Preservation Board meeting later this week, the Bridgehampton Methodist Church in Southampton is the only LI nomination on the agenda. It's at 2429 Montauk Highway, a nice big white wooden church if you're able to get out there and take a picture at some point. Daniel Case (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

December 21: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (plus Wikipedia Day on Jan 15!)
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U.S. Route 29 in Georgia
The other editors were not particularly constructive on how you should make the Route description in U.S. Route 29 in Georgia more concise, so I decided to give it a shot. I annotated your first paragraph with comments. I hope these comments are helpful as you rewrite the Route description.  V C  04:05, 28 December 2016 (UTC)

Annotated paragraph
US Route 29 enters the State of Georgia at the City of West Point, from Lanett, Alabama at a car and truck dealership, that completely dominates the previous block. The road is named Third Avenue, and on the opposite side of this dealership is a former Atlanta and West Point Railroad freight station that now serves as the West Point Visitors Center. At West Seventh Street, US 29/GA 14 turns right, then crosses a railroad line along Second Avenue only to turn left between there and First Avenue. The road makes a right turn at Ninth Street in order to cross the John C. Barrow Bridge over the Chattahoochee River. Across the river, the name of the street is East 10th Street. At Avenue E, US 29/SR 14 curves north onto West Point Road, and East 10th Street becomes Georgia State Route 18. North of East 11th Street, the road runs between the Point University Gymnasium, and the western edge of the Fort Tyler Cemetery. After the intersection with O.G. Skinner Drive, US 29 crosses the A&WP railroad line for the second time and becomes slightly more rural, though it doesn't officially leave the city limits until after a dead end street named Woodlawn Road. Along the way, it passes the rural surroundings along the southeast bank of West Point Lake, which includes recreational areas such as R. Shaefer Heard Park and Long Cane Park, which contains a boat launching area hidden deep in the woods west of the road. This park is named for the former unincorporated community which today consists only of intersections with Gabbettville Road and Lower Glass Bridge Road, including a local gas station/bait and tackle shop. After shifting away from a former segment named "Old West Point Road," the road curves back to the northeast and then to the east after Teaver Road as it enters Woodfield, but then turns back northeast before approaching the intersection with Pegasus Parkway. From that point, it also intersects West Lukken Industrial Drive, part of which leads to the LaGrange Callaway Airport. East of there, the road keeps running in and out of LaGrange, but doesn't completely stay within the city limits until the intersection with Georgia State Route 109, where West Point Road becomes Vernon Street, and it turns east and forms a concurrency with that route west of the West Georgia Medical Center. From this area, it also runs through the Vernon Road Historic District.
 * Okay, I understand what you're suggesting, but regarding some of the points you're making; 3)I don't specifically remember mentioning the name of the dealership itself, but that is where the Alabama-Georgia cuts through. 7)As far as the railroad line, I thought I've mentioned on that it was part of the old Atlanta and West Point Railroad line on numerous occasions. 11)The Gym is the only part of the university I know of where it passes by 12)The Cemetery is across the street. 17)The road to the airport is the only way to the airport from US 29/SR 14. 20)I'm glad you liked the fact that I mentioned the historic districts the road passes through. I could consider the possibility of swiping the text from this and adding it to articles on those districts, since so many of them are redlinks. -User:DanTD (talk) 20:23, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

Special route names
I've noticed a tendency in your writing and editing to misname the special routes of highways. The "type" name goes either before or after the parent highway name to avoid splitting it up. In other words: The type, or the "banner" if you want to use that neologism, can either precede or follow the parent designation, whether that is a U.S Highway or a state highway. Some state highway names could never have the special route type inserted in the middle, like "Bus. M-28"  Imzadi 1979  →   05:39, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
 * U.S. Alternate Route 1 → U.S. Route 1 Alternate or Alternate U.S. Route 1,
 * US BUS 2 → Bus. US 2 or US 2 Bus.


 * FYI, this is the way I've always read them when I'm on the road. ---User:DanTD (talk) 05:44, 31 December 2016 (UTC)