User talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2021/Aug

DYK for The Knickerbocker Hotel
— Maile (talk) 00:03, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of James B. Duke House
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Your GA nomination of Coty Building
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DYK for 53W53
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Citigroup Center
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 3 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Payne Whitney House
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DYK for 200 West Street
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:03, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Lever House
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for 660 Fifth Avenue
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Promotion of Singer Building
Thank you for another great FA, and I love the Lever House pictured! Yesterday I had two interesting DYK (I think), and the day before was at a concert with Daniel Barenboim just playing piano, and afterwards he and the orchestra received last year's prize (pictured). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:39, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Villard Houses
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Beaux-Arts Apartments
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DYK for CBS Building
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Washington Heights, Manhattan
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:03, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 181st Street station (IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line)
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for 1271 Avenue of the Americas
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for St. Patrick's Cathedral (Manhattan)
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:02, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Anna Sorokin
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 12:04, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

New York Stock Exchange Building
Hello:

The copy edit you requested from the Guild of Copy Editors of the article New York Stock Exchange Building has been completed.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

The article is in great shape, I think. I hope things go well throughout the FA process

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 13:22, 13 August 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Beaux-Arts Apartments
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Your GA nomination of Beaux-Arts Apartments
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23 Wall Street
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Best of luck with the FA review when you get to it.

Regards,

Twofingered Typist (talk) 14:48, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 590 Madison Avenue
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 16 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK nomination of 275 Madison Avenue
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DYK for Beaux-Arts Apartments
— Maile (talk) 12:02, 18 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Church Missions House
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Payne Whitney House
 Schwede 66  12:03, 19 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for Unisphere
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 21 August 2021 (UTC)

Did anyone know for Solow Building
When you've done your quid for the quo (or vice versa) of DYK/Solow Building, please note there that you've done so (of course), but also please ping me in one way or another, so that I'll know as soon as possible of the change in eligibility. Thanks! -- Hoary (talk) 08:38, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , sorry about that, I forgot to do a QPQ and it must have slipped my mind. I'll do one shortly. Epicgenius (talk) 13:43, 23 August 2021 (UTC)

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DYK for One Vanderbilt
Cwmhiraeth (talk) 00:02, 25 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for James B. Duke House
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for American Radiator Building
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

DYK for 452 Fifth Avenue
&mdash; Amakuru (talk) 00:02, 28 August 2021 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of American Radiator Building
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DYK for Metropolitan Tower (Manhattan)
— Maile (talk) 00:02, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Finding Sources
Hey Epicgenius! I recently saw your DYK nomination for Axa_Equitable_Center and saw that you achieved a massive amount of editing. It is a fantastic article (as an architecture nerd, right in my ballpark as well). I was wondering how you were able to find so many sources on the building (an over 20x expansion on the previous reflist). Warm regards A. C. Santacruz  &#8258;  Talk  14:58, 30 August 2021 (UTC)
 * , thanks for the compliment. For the sources, I used The Wikipedia Library to get free access to newspapers.com and ProQuest. There's an especially large amount of coverage on buildings in the northeastern United States, though, particularly in the NYC area. I can't guarantee that other areas of the US or world have similar amounts of architectural coverage. (I also have architectural books about NYC buildings specifically, but that accounts for only a minority of the sources on that page, and I also can't guarantee that other regions have such deep bibliographical coverage about buildings.) Epicgenius (talk) 15:31, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of American Radiator Building
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The NYC subway and the Google street map entrances
Dear Epic, I am Italian, I love NYC and above all the mytichal NYC subway. I know that also you are a great lover of the NY subway and maybe you can help me. I think that wiki is a fantastic thing and should not be a dictatorship! I love the NY subway and NYC stations pages. But there is a problem. A wikipedia's administrator, incredibly threatened to block me from editing only because I updated the old (many of the 2009...) images of the subway entrances, I just put other subway entrances (see the 59th St Columbus Circle, Fulton Center and 42nd Times Square stations for example) and above all I put subway entrances and platform images where there were images of streets without stations or even restaurant interiors...(only for example, to see the Franklin Street station)! I lost a lot of hours (and many nights) in this huge work because I love the NYC subway. I also love Wikipedia and I think that is it necessary to correct the evident errors. In many images it wasn't possible to see many entrance stairs and I, with an infinite patience, have updated them! I think that these were important contributions to improve the NY subway page and as a thank you now I can't see the subway entrances of Google streets on the wiki pages... Now this person is taking off all the google map street view entrances of the NY subway stations!!! Absurd! I think that these images were very useful because in the many NY subway sites we can to see only the stations, but my goal was put also all the subway entrances! (YOU CAN SEE THE OLD WIKI PAGE OF 24 August 2021 OF THE 59TH ST-COLUMBUS CIRCLE STATION WITH ALL THE ENTRANCES in the Google Maps Street View section, FOR EXAMPLE - https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=59th_Street%E2%80%93Columbus_Circle_station&oldid=1040487147). And this is only 1 example (you can see the old pages of Times Square, Fulton Center stations etc) I updated and added ALL the subway entrances of the 1-2 and 3 lines after many nights without sleeping ONLY for an ENORMOUS PASSION and WITHOUT INTEREST, but this has been his only answer:

Short answer; we don't need Google streetview links to every subway station. Wikipedia is not a directory or a transit guide. Most of the other links in the External links section should be removed per WP:EL. OhNoitsJamie Talk 21:38, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

P.S. If you see this page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/125th_Street_station_(IRT_Lexington_Avenue_Line) it is easy to notice an huge error: if you click on the 125th Street entrance from Google Maps Street View (in the external links section), you don't see an entrance in the street, but a platform... And this is just a simple example of the many errors in these NY subway stations pages. Now, if I correct these errors, he can block me. I don't think that this is the right attitude to improve Wikipedia... What do you suggest me to do? Thanks for your possible help.

I HOPE THAT YOU CAN HELP ME TO RESTORE ALL THE FANTASTIC AND USEFUL IMAGES OF THE ENTRANCES OF THE NYC SUBWAY STATIONS ON Google Maps Street View! Thank you. A great passionate of the NYC subway. Forza NYCFC !! (talk) 02:22, 31 August 2021 (UTC)


 * , thanks for the comment. I understand that you're really passionate about these edits and I appreciate that work. On one hand, from what said, it does seem to violate WP:ELNO at a first glance, because these links do seem like a collection of spam to a casual observer. On the other hand, links to subway entrances (or at least their coordinates) can be useful for the majority of people who aren't intimately familiar with subway entrances. Furthermore, it was a current administrator who added these google maps links in the first place, for example this diff to South Ferry/Whitehall Street station.
 * I would suggest bringing this up at WT:NYCPT, since the issue with Google Maps links seems to have previously been brought up at Talk:South Ferry/Whitehall Street station/GA1. I don't think it can be easily solved by a discussion on a user talk page, so a greater discussion would probably have to take place there to establish a consensus. Epicgenius (talk) 02:49, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I can't imagine why Google streetview links would somehow be appropriate per subway station articles, per WP:NOTGUIDE and WP:NOTDIR. They shouldn't be added unless someone can cite a policy or consensus that we make an exception for them. Furthermore, most of the other links I was frequently seeing in the subway sections violated WP:EL (advert-laden user generated content). OhNo itsJamie Talk 13:38, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * I don't object to the user-generated links being deleted. For the Google Street View links though, I think we should check with (the aforementioned admin who added many of the street views in the first place) and other involved users to determine if they think these links are useful and/or appropriate. I'm not sure the entire section falls under WP:NOTGUIDE, as the location of a subway station and the fact that it has exits to some streets is part of the nature of the subject itself. That's why I suggested a discussion be created at WT:NYCPT, the relevant WikiProject. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:54, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Very many people were enjoying my enormous work to seek and put the many NYC subway entrances. When in 2019 I have been in the most important city in the world and I taken your fantastic subway at all hours, even if I am a huge lover of it, it wasn't easy to find the right entrance and therefore, when I saw that on wiki somebody had had this fantastic idea, I was very happy and I wished to contribute. If I deleted some previous images, it was because in that pictures often it was not possible to see the entrance or also because with 1 only image I was trying to show all the STAIRS and also the fantastic GREEN (entrance always open 24/7) and RED lamps typical of the NYC subway, but also the beautiful NYC skyscrapers on background!!! I realize that for the persons which aren't passionate of the NY subway it it may not be important, but it is however USEFUL. When I saw that the wikipedia' administrator deleted the subway entrances of the Times Square, Columbus Circle, Fulton Center etc it has been an heart attack for me and for my sleeping nights to seek and add, but also to update the many entrances of these fantastic stations! I hope that my old images on the 1-2 and 3 lines can be restored and that the administrator will be able to allow us to put the entrances of all the lines and to improve these wiki pages. Thank you and excuse me for my incorrect English...Forza NYCFC !! (talk) 16:11, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of American Radiator Building
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