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Congratulating myself on 5 million
Come on, guys. No award for me?

Assessment for a Bronx article
Hey sorry to bother, but would it be possible for me to get a rating on Port Morris? It’s been getting a lot attention lately regarding gentrification, and I want to "get it out there" so other editors can chime in and contribute. You seem super important so that’s why I come to you, TY! EricViking32 (talk) 00:35, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅. I rated the article C-class and mid-importance, since neighborhoods are of mid-importance in WP:NYC. It is short of just a few references that are needed for B-class status.And I don't consider myself "super important." Is it because of my user name? Maybe I should change what it displays to something... um... less important. epic genius (talk) 00:38, 3 November 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for Program for Action
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Reliable source
http://www.businessoffashion.com/community/companies/bergdorf-goodman is a journal and an acceptable source. Please stop being disruptive. Brad90210
 * Please consult the teahouse or help desk if you have any questions on reliable sources. I don't believe that the link is reliable under policy. epic genius (talk) 21:59, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

SIR S line
Can you possibly help me fix the stupid s line template for the SIR to have the link for South Beach Branch, North Shore Branch and Mount Loretto Spur pages go to the pages I created for them and not the section on the Staten Island Railway page. Thanks.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 00:39, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

Assessing SIR Articles
Hi, could you assess the North Shore, Travis and South Beach pages when you have a chance? Thanks.

Reply
Sure, I'd be glad to help with both of the above. epic genius (talk) 00:51, 10 November 2015 (UTC)

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DYK nomination of Fordham Plaza, Bronx
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Reversion
In reverting carte blanche because you did not like our inline and section tags, you REVERTED CLEAR PLAGIARSIM. I and others are working on the bad sourcing of various sections. There is no tag-bombing, but a selective use of tags inline, to mark sections as we work our way through sections to check sources and remediate inaccurate souring. PLEASE TO NOT DO MASSIVE REVERTS. The material from two principle sources was used cut and paste. If you waste more of our time with mass reversions, I will mark the article as copypaste, and take it up to top Admins.

Now, out of respect I am going, one by one, to return your helpful edits. Please do the hard work and be similarly respectful in your edits. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 17:57, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Please see here,, before thinking of reverting hours of hard sourcing and text clarification work. The sections referred to are plagiarized and/or misuse sources. Do selective diffs to see what was changed before doing another revert based on appearances. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:03, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Please consult the two good sources listed in "Further reading" at the Brighton Beac article. These are currently underused — they can likely be used to (i) correct mistaken or made-up factual text, and/or (ii) to provide inline citations for many of the inline citation tags where the content is accurate. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 18:41, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I was working on fixing the article. It is a mess, but adding tons of tags makes it hard for the reader. I will also try to find the good sources... epic genius (talk) 18:59, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I have been working on the list of deadlinks and bare URLs. Help me? Three done. By the way, the tags are intended temporary, and they let me know, paragraph by paragraph by paragraph, section by section, what text and sources have been checked.  BB deserves a GA, eventually. I suppose I could have put in an "Under construction" tag. Thanks for patience. Le Prof  Leprof 7272 (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Sure, I will help. I think that if that was your purpose, maybe a hidden comment would have helped, like this:  and you could have put refimprove on it. I'm sorry if I was rude to you earlier, but I felt that this was a real case of tag bombing, especially since you'd stopped editing for the day. epic genius (talk) 19:25, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Got it. Couple of things. First, there is a current discrepancy between the 2007 lede-cited population numbers and the 2010 census numbers appearing in the article, and this needs to be rectified, quickly. (I won't put discrepancy tags, just leave it to you to sort.) Note, the census is the formal best data, and the large discrepancies are likely not date-associated, but rather, differences in boundaries used by the two sources. Hence, a careful look is in order, with the census winning the day if the origin of the discrepancy cannot be identified.


 * Bottom line, I realize that I am, as a stickler for rigour, and as an academic, I am in a minority here, with regard to the site's regular editorial practices. But my convictions align well with (i) WP policies, (ii) academic standards for doing honest academic work, and (iii) enough fellow editors, seeking to create good, solid, long-lasting encyclopedic content, that I will at times fight for these principles.


 * Apologies if I was at all obnoxious in my pressing forward with them. In close, I would just say I have put a couple of reasonably good sources (esp. the encyclopedia, but also the Williams article, after that) into the "Further reading" section. I would look to those to draw some further citations to replace inline tags, but also to check remaining text. For instance, I still think dubious the statement that "In 1868, William A. Engeman built a resort in the area." which is sourced to the Stanton piece. I think the history is more likely accurate as being represented by saying that he purchased land with the intent to develop it, and with the later commitment to create the first, anchoring institution (the hotel), the reality of a resort began to materialize. But my opinion is not key. What do the best sources say?


 * P.S. WIll likely go back to editing from IP on this, since you now know me.


 * Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 21:13, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I had intended to use Luxury Hotels as a place holder until I found a better reference. I can tell it is not reliable. I will find better sources a little later, when I am not editing with a tablet. epic genius (talk) 21:24, 12 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Note, the Demographics numbers were bungled -- they do not come from the one source appearing in the paragraph. In short, the US Census numbers are without source at this point. For population, I went with the combined numbers in the cited report, which itself references the census. But those numbers are for BB and Coney Island, combined, and so are higher (>110,000). This number now appears in the lede, infobox, and Demographics section (until another source can be found). Leprof 7272 (talk) 22:33, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

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Sunshine for u!

 * Thanks for the nice sunshine! epic genius (talk) 13:39, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
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Annoying
This IP is highly persistent, and is now trying to remove the AIV report. Do you know any admins currently online who could block? Thanks for your help in dealing with this. GABHello! 13:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * The IP is blocked now. Thanks anyway. epic genius (talk) 13:48, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. Wonderful. GABHello! 13:56, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

JSTOR cleanup drive
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A barnstar for you!
PS: Shouldn't you add some potatoes at the end of that long user page? :P  Ya  sh  !   09:21, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Glad you liked it. ;) Also, I will add potatoes after I farm 'em. May take a while, though. epic genius (talk) 13:57, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

Copy-editing white-noise
Hello Epicgenius, thank you for your efforts to copy-edit large number of articles at high-speed. To make it easier for other editors to quickly see what might have been changed, please could I encourage copy-editing in a manner that does not involve introducing large-amounts of white-space diff-noise at the same time. For example by not adding extra spaces to ; not converting '…' ellipsis into rows of full-stops; and when wishing to join two paragraphs, perhaps only deleting one newline, rather than both. This would make any value in the edits, instantly more obvious to other editors. —Sladen (talk) 20:55, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks . Actually, it's not at high speed, but OK, I will try to copyedit better (in a beneficial, non-disruptive way, of course).... epic genius (talk) 21:12, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hi, forgive me for butting in, but your comment confused me, so I'm butting in anyway. :) I don't understand your complaint about the ellipses. We should be using three full stops per MOS:ELLIPSIS, not the one you've indicated above. Also, if you're having difficulty figuring out what happened in the diff, I would recommend checking out User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff, which you can turn on in Preferences > Gadgets > Editing. It makes changes much more obvious. Regards, Cyphoidbomb (talk) 21:23, 18 November 2015 (UTC)


 * Hello, the spirit was perhaps more of a polite nudge to Epicgenius (and an others listening) to focus on the high-quality and consider whether other low-value/wide-disruption edits help the course of a collaborative workflow (eg. is it necessary). For MOS:ELLIPSIS, perhaps you'd be able to work with me on getting that fixed, so that we're not losing semantic information on the basis of superseded/outdated perceptions about font-rendering or input mechanisms.  —Sladen (talk) 21:34, 18 November 2015 (UTC)  In case its useful for others, in this instance I used to   and
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Barnstar for your work

 * Thank you for the award and for your kind words! I really appreciate it. epic genius (talk) 13:27, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

Ridership data
Even though this is key data, there seems to be no consensus on what figure to use, weekday average, daily over 365, total annual, monthly, or other. Sometimes infobox parameters will be misused for the figure that has been entered. But my actual question is when making those super-neat annual ridership tables that look like a Census history, what is the "official" data source in general? Such as for Miami Metrorail and Metromover do you just take the average weekdailies from the monthly tech reports and add it up and divide by 12? User:Comayagua99 did the most recent figure (2014) for Metrorail. Thanks. edit: and please tell me these figures go by calendar year and not fiscal year. B137 (talk) 00:12, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your question. Many ridership figures use yearly figures, as this is the most stable calculation over time. Some stations may have really high riderships at certain times of year, or even on just a few days per year, with low-to-moderate ridership otherwise. If the total figure is averaged over 12 (for an average monthly figure) or over 365 (for an average daily figure), such discrepancies may not be reflected. Some sources use fiscal year, such as Miami Metrorail and Amtrak, but some, like NYC Subway, use calendar year, so you should calculate the total by whichever measurement the agencies use (i.e. fiscal or calendar).For example, the February 2014 Metrorail ridership at Government Center station (Miami) is 299,806, which, if taken as a yearly average, is 3,597,672 for that year. However, fiscal year 2014's ridership comes out to be 3.2 million, or a difference of almost 400,000 people (11%). epic genius (talk) 01:41, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks, good to know, but too bad because that's confusing to the average person. In other news, if you would like to marjorly geek out, I'm working on An expansive table for the Metromover page. B137 (talk) 03:13, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Interesting. But these figures will vary from year to year, so when next fiscal year rolls around, you'd have a lot of updating to do. ;) epic genius (talk) 03:15, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually, I put that March 2014 figure in the infobox last year and have left it there because that's the highest number I have seen. Of course I know it changes, but it's already more data than doing and annual average. If I were to try to do an annual average of stations, one I would end up like this guy, two if anyone were to go that far they might as well make graphs plotting the ridership over time. B137 (talk) 04:09, 19 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that would seem like too much if you updated the data every month. The pages don't get many views per month (I think in the range of a hundred or two), but yeah, you can put a ridership table on the system's main article, where it's more likely to be seen. epic genius (talk) 13:30, 19 November 2015 (UTC)

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DYK for NewYork–Presbyterian/Queens
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Hi
Hi, thanks for your review at Template:Did you know nominations/Jakarta Marathon. But can you clear your opinion, in one comment you said "ALT3 is more interesting than ALT2" but in the end you said "ALT2 is good to go". I think you may have written it by mistake. Are you sure that ALT2 is more interesting?-- Human 3015   TALK   21:05, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Hey. Yes, that was a mistake, unless you preferred ALT2. Thanks for telling me about it, and I have fixed my comment. epic genius (talk) 00:20, 22 November 2015 (UTC)

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Rating on two articles
Sup, would it be alright if I get an updated rating on The Hub and Longwood? Go ahead and clean up any mistakes you find, as you did the others I recently edited. I noticed a lot of outdated pictures on many of The Bronx's articles, so I may or may not take up the task of uploading some updated streetscapes of neighborhoods around the borough when I get time. EricViking32 (talk) 02:41, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Sure, I should do them right now. epic genius (talk) 10:52, 25 November 2015 (UTC)

Reactions to the November 2015 Paris attacks
Why do you feel that Andrew Cuomo's directive to illuminate One WTC in France's Tricolour is "totally irrelevant," when it is actually exactly the opposite? This image and caption are placed in the "Government reactions" section, and therefore it would only make sense to include this fact. I thought that the reference is also excellent there. I am not going to revert this edit because of the 1RR restriction on this topic, but I would request you to explain (and possibly re-evaluate) your logic here. Best, Castncoot (talk) 23:03, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Although I see you mean well by including the reference in the image, this "proclamation" is probably most relevant in the quotes section. Also, if I'm not mistaken, other governors probably made similar proclamations, because similar structures in other states were lit up in the same colors. epic genius (talk) 04:25, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
 * True, but One WTC is perhaps the prominent of those structures and should be included based on this criterion. In any case, I'm on board with your new edit. Best, Castncoot (talk) 04:53, 27 November 2015 (UTC)

DYK for Fordham Plaza, Bronx
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DYK for MTA Bus Time
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