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April 2015 Wikification drive.
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PLEASE COMMENT
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia (7th nomination)... Hafspajen (talk) 22:25, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Wait, what happened? Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia (7th nomination)? Epic Genius (talk) 01:42, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, someone deleted it ... No more jokes. Hafspajen (talk) 11:46, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Every day's a happy joke. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wikipedia (7th nomination). Epic Genius (talk) 13:14, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

VisualEditor News #2—2015
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Today's articles for improvement



 * Hello Epicgenius:


 * Please vote in TAFI. There weren't many votes last week. Thank you. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 21:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for voting at TAFI. Hope you always vote in the next few weeks. Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 23:36, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, I will. Epic Genius (talk) 02:45, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Seaman-Drake Arch
Hello! Your submission of Seaman-Drake Arch at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! Yoninah (talk) 19:10, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Happy Easter!



 * Thanks! Epic Genius (talk) 01:31, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Metro
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)
 * Then why is User:Dicklyon still moving these articles? Also, do you want me to revert Dicklyon's recent moves? Epic Genius (talk) 14:47, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't have anything to say about Dicklyon's edits here. They may or may not be proper moves. The issue is you moving and asking to move pages that were decided to have no consensus yesterday. Those moves are obviously controversial, and ignoring a discussion is bad form and probably disruptive. You should take Dicklyon's advice below and continue the conversation, not act unilaterally. Dohn joe (talk) 15:12, 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)
 * OK. Where can I find the link to the discussion? Epic Genius (talk) 15:32, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, I have the link now; no worries: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (US stations). Epic Genius (talk) 18:36, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

Whitestone, NY
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)
 * I live nearby. I think the photo is relevant, but if not, we can discuss it here. Epic Genius (talk) 00:08, 7 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)
 * Yep. I recognize the building in the image from being off the Whitestone Expressway but didn't think that it was actually in College Point. As for the demographic breakup, it seems that there really isn't a "Chinatown" there per se. It was added by some Chinese POV editor years ago, and I never thought that the information was wrong, but apparently a Whitestone Chinatown doesn't exist. Epic Genius (talk) 02:30, 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)
 * It's not a town, it's a neighborhood in NYC, but ah, whatever. You can reword it if you wish, but please provide a source. You can also ask other NYC-area editors for help here. Epic Genius (talk) 02:41, 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)
 * No problem. Epic Genius (talk) 02:52, 7 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK
Thanks for that, I really appreciate it, especially considering our somewhat checkered history. Best, BMK (talk) 06:48, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Capitalized disambiguator in text
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 have trying to clean up the mess that is these articles. I've watched these WMATA articles for almost 2 years now. Epic Genius (talk) 15:08, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * So what's your thinking on the present mess? Push the made-up name that has failed to achieve consensus into the article, displacing the official names?  Dicklyon (talk) 15:11, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Here's my thinking. Stop fooling around with the names. It doesn't matter whether it's Anacostia Station, Anacostia station, Anacostia, Anacostia Metro Station, Anacostia Metro station, or Anacostia WMATA station. None of them are wrong. As the saying goes, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.Epic Genius (talk) 15:13, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Great, if you'll stop fooling around with things that don't matter to you, then people to whom style and guidelines matter can make progress.  Dicklyon (talk) 15:18, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It doesn't matter at all. To anyone. Moving the pages takes more server space. There is no "naming convention" that we urgently need to switch to within the next eternity until the world ends. The "naming convention" is just a suggestion that the vast majority of articles haven't adopted yet. Epic Genius (talk) 15:20, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yes, I understand the people are not fond of WP:USSTATION; I'm not either. But that has little to do with the recent pushing of capitalized Station into articles where it doesn't belong.  Why are you reverting  fixes you claim to not care about?  Dicklyon (talk) 15:57, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Because I do care about unnecessary grammar changes. Epic Genius (talk) 16:01, 9 April 2015 (UTC)

Buckley School
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)


 * 1. I'm surprised you know what an edit war is. You only have a few edits under this IP address. You should be well-versed with our other policy, which is our notability policy. 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 (talk) 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/w/index.php?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)


 * @67.243.12.252: I, too, would like to cooperate with you. Now that we've established that the person is notable, yes, the article about Thomas Gilbert the accused murderer can be created. The real name of Eddie Gilbert (wrestler) is Thomas Gilbert, Jr., so that is why the redirect points there. Epic Genius (talk) 01:41, 10 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Actually, you know what? Just write a draft at Draft:Thomas Gilbert Jr. or WT:Articles for creation/Thomas Gilbert Jr., then submit it to WP:Articles for creation. Epic Genius (talk) 02:02, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Statue of Edward Snowden
Harrias talk 12:02, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement



 * Hello Epicgenius:


 * This week's voting for TAFI's upcoming weekly collaboration has begun at Week 19 of 2015. Thanks for participating!

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Default sizes for pictures
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)
 * OK, thanks. Will upright be fine as well? Epic Genius (talk) 19:13, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm not a big fan of upright in general. What are you planning to use it for? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:33, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, upright doesn't work for infoboxes, but |upright= (not the regular upright, which makes the images smaller) allows images to be relatively larger, so I could use it to zoom in on the details on the pictures. Epic Genius (talk) 19:35, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah! That makes perfect sense. That should be totally fine as long as it's percentage-of-magnification and not pixel count. Honestly it's probably not worth bothering too much except for large-format maps; if you have to zoom in on a photograph, it might be better just to upload a cropped version. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:01, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Anchors in Shooting of Walter Scott
As no redirects target these anchors (nor should they, since that would be without context), what is their purpose? &#8213; Mandruss  &#9742;  04:53, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't know. If there's no redirects or incoming links, the anchors can be removed. Epic Genius (talk) 10:50, 13 April 2015 (UTC)

Please comment on Talk:List of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episodes
The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Talk:List of Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt episodes. Legobot (talk) 00:07, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you for the barnstar! I appreciate it. Epic Genius (talk) 12:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

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How about it, you asked ...
OK. Daniel Case (talk) 19:53, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Incidentally, I think there might be a better caption. Maybe "2009 view of the west elevations of office and main building, demolished in 2015"? Epic Genius (talk) 19:55, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Go ahead. Normally I don't like beginning sentences with figures, but a) it's not a complete sentence and b) it's a cutline. Daniel Case (talk) 20:03, 16 April 2015 (UTC)

help can you tell me a way to do this
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)
 * I think you should back away from the problem as much as you can. I mean, don't post on WikiProject Anime about the proposal anymore. There is a similar and much more popular task force for the things you're trying to do, which is articles for creation. Epic Genius (talk) 20:18, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Is there the MTA subway wikicommonsProject?Doorknob747 (talk) 15:33, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope, sorry. It is strictly an en.wiki project. Epic Genius (talk) 02:10, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * How to convert High res mp4 vids to high res ogv?Doorknob747 (talk) 02:15, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * That's not a Wikipedia issue. I replied to you on Commons already. Epic Genius (talk) 02:16, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The problem is that Door isn't listening to what other editors have to say, nobody is "after" you door but you should focus on things like improving articles rather than to make broad proposals. - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 02:45, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Agree with Knowledgekid. Instead of proposing stuff, you should expand articles and improve their quality, which more editors would appreciate. Epic Genius (talk) 02:49, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
 * That is why I recently have started to work with images and adding them to correct places in Wikipedia. I will start going back to proposals once I have a hang of Wikipedia.  Doorknob747 (talk) 03:09, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

How to get in touch with you over there
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)
 * I don't use Freenode that often. I am busy on Commons and in real life. Epic Genius (talk) 10:56, 17 April 2015 (UTC)

im givng u a barn star

 * Thanks! Epic Genius (talk) 03:06, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Problem with your am I logged in clock.
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)

Just out of curiosity...
...what were you trying to do ? 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 was trying to make sure that the formatting of the images and quotes didn't overlap. Epic Genius (talk) 01:34, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Do they? What browswer are you using? EEng (talk) 01:43, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Same overlapping problem happens with me. I use the Windows 8.1 Start Menu tile version of Internet Explorer.  I also use Firefox Developer Edition and the same problems also occur.  Doorknob747 (talk) 02:47, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * "Same overlapping problem"... what overlapping problem? EEng (talk) 09:27, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * The image thumbnail and the quote's background color overlap, but the image doesn't overlap with the text in the quote. Epic Genius (talk) 13:05, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * So if I'm hearing you right there's no actual problem. It's a side effect of a trick I used to make the layout adjust gracefully to narrowing window width -- if you grab the right edge of the window and gradually narrow it, at the point where the width available for text becomes too narrow, that starting point for the text jumps from left of the image to below the image. I'd appreciate it if you'd try it on your configuration and tell me what you think. EEng (talk) 13:49, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It worked for me in Google Chrome. The image became stacked above the quote. Epic Genius (talk) 15:59, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking. Pretty cute, huh? I try to avoid putting two images opposite each other, but when that does happens, I use the nobreak trick so that if the window is narrow, you don't get a thin "text sandwich" down the middle between the images. Another example is at Phineas_Gage. Naturally some busybody comes along now and then to remove it, saying "I've never seen that so it can't be a good idea." EEng (talk) 19:26, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Cool. I've never seen it before, but I think it's a good idea, although the quote formatting looks weird to me. Epic Genius (talk) 19:28, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * If you're talking about the Sacred Cod article, yeah, it's a little unusual --you don't see many colored quote boxes. If you're talking about Gage, could you be more specific? Thanks, because this is the first time I've been able to get any feedback on this, other than the busybodies. EEng (talk) 21:41, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Oops, sorry, I meant the Sacred Cod article when I said 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)
 * Oh goody. Now I can tell people a genius approves of my work. Thanks. BTW, have you visited The Most Fun Place in The Saddest Place on Earth? EEng (talk) 23:42, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I've seen that. Man, it must really be a sad Wikipedia. Epic Genius (talk) 01:52, 21 April 2015 (UTC)

Ed koch bridge picture
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)
 * Yes, the resolution of the original picture would probably be better. Thank you, Epic Genius (talk) 01:25, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Queens photo requests?
Hi! Do you take photos for Wikipedia in Queens? If so, I have some ideas at Picture_requests/Requests/United_States. Are you interested in taking any of these?

Thanks, WhisperToMe (talk) 16:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC)


 * Do you mean c:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/United_States? Most of these locations are, on foot, pretty far from me, except for maybe Forest Hills. Plus, my photographs aren't that good. Maybe you can ask User:Jim.henderson about it. Epic Genius (talk) 16:53, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the suggestion! I had asked already about suburban photos (Westchester County, NY; Fairfield County, CT; and Bergen County, NJ) and I'll see if he's interested in Queens too WhisperToMe (talk) 17:00, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Grr, some Wikipedia editors get impatient with backbiters saying nasty things about them. My problem is the many good people saying nice things about me and making me want to do nice things for them. Well, it's time I started hitting back.  You have done excellent work organizing disorganized bits of Commons, and I've just now noticed that Commons:Commons:Picture_requests/Requests/United_States is badly organized within itself, and has hardly any links to and from the subcats of en Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New York City.  Presumably the rest of the USA is as messy.  Kindly check to see if some of the things I just now did there are counterproductive, and see what you can do to straighten things out.  Re-subsectionalize, whatever, and plenty of links I think can help, and you can probably think of something better.  And maybe something with coordinates.  I don't quite see how or what, but surely photographers would be more productive if there were a semi automated way to make a target map.  Jim.henderson (talk) 17:56, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Map of WP requested photos. (Using OSM.) – Epic Genius (talk) 18:15, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
 * How do I get the former Japanese School of New York campuses at 196-25 Peck Ave Flushing, New York and 187-90 Grand Central Pkwy Hollis, NY 11423 posted on the request map? WhisperToMe (talk) 05:52, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't really know, but you can put the coordinates on these articles and see what happens then. Epic Genius (talk) 02:28, 23 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)
 * It, unfortunately, doesn't look like you can add coords to reqphoto. You would have better luck in Wikimedia Commons, though. There are more photographers over there than here. Epic Genius (talk) 14:59, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the tips! I also inquired about coordinates at Template_talk:Image_requested. WhisperToMe (talk) 15:10, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem. Maybe you can inquire at the Village pump, or request an edit to that template (even though you are an admin and can edit Template:Image requested, you can still add an edit request if you need help). Epic Genius (talk) 15:15, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and asked about it in Village_pump_(technical)... I want to add it but I don't how how to program it in. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:18, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It is regular wikicode. Don't worry, there are plenty of editors that know how to program complex templates in wikicode. Epic Genius (talk) 16:32, 23 April 2015 (UTC)

Today's articles for improvement



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Hillary Rodham Clinton - Move Discussion
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Doorknob747
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 actually don't know him IRL, but I'll pass on the message. I get the feeling that he thinks that I am the only editor that he could trust. Epic Genius (talk) 16:45, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for my errant assumption, but thanks for your note on his talk page. BMK (talk) 00:53, 28 April 2015 (UTC)
 * No problem. Epic Genius (talk) 01:30, 28 April 2015 (UTC)

You're welcome!
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 (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)


 * The Happyland arson appears to be, well, arson, which is pretty much a crime in NYC as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, I'm incidentally the editor who added many of these incorrect entries, so double thanks for trimming the ones that aren't relevant. Epic Genius (talk) 02:58, 29 April 2015 (UTC)

14th street mosaic
Hi there, Epicgenius. You recently reverted an edit of mine. 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)
 * Yeah, I was confused, too, until I realized my mistake. I've fixed it, so now the mosaic picture is restored on both articles with the correct caption. Thank you, Epic Genius (talk) 02:01, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

2014 MTA Subway Passenger Numbers
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)
 * Thanks! I will update these over the next week. Epic Genius (talk) 12:49, 22 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I am ✅ with the updates. Wow, I did not know I had so much free time today. Epic Genius (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It looks like you updated many of the stations with accessdate parameters in the future (example), placing lots of articles in Category:CS1 errors: dates.
 * Oops. Sorry. about that. It will be fixed within the week. Epic Genius (talk) 02:28, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
 * It is now fixed. (Obviously, since the dates have now all passed.) Epic Genius (talk) 03:19, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Thank you
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)