User talk:Mitchazenia/Archive31

Train station picture
Took a couple of stabs at it and came out with two different versions. -  ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ  τ ¢  15:54, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Harriman refs
Hi there, I just wanted to say I read through Harriman (Erie Railroad station) and did some light cleanup to make the references more consistent. I just wanted to mention that you might want to think about using sfn in the future to cite books, to avoid naming refs. It would allow you to easily use syntax like to generate  in references that are automatically grouped. If you already knew about the template, sorry for bothering you. --Gyrobo (talk) 16:23, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's cool, I didn't know about sfn myself until someone pointed it out to me at a FAC a month ago. Fortunately, I only had a few large articles written, and it was easy for me to start using it. The most important thing is to remember to put "|ref=harv" into your Cite book templates, and always use "|year" instead of "|date=", or the link won't work. --Gyrobo (talk) 16:52, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Just wanted to let you know I changed the article to use the sfn templates. I also think you need a page number for Yanosey, vol. 1. It might be a good idea to put vol. 1 in the footnotes section, and just set the |year= parameter for the books to 2006a and 2006b. Does it look better? --Gyrobo (talk) 23:12, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Harriman (Erie Railroad station)
Materialscientist (talk) 00:03, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 February newsletter
So begins round two of the WikiCup! We now have eight pools, each with eight random contestants. This round will continue until the end of April, when the top two of each pool, as well as the next 16 highest scorers of those remaining, will make it to round three. Congratulations to (first, with 487 points) and  (second, with 459), who stormed the first round. finished third with 223. Twelve others finished with over 100 points- well done to all of you! The final standings in round one can be seen here. A mere 8 points were required to reach round two; competition will no doubt be much more fierce this round, so be ready for a challenge! A special thanks goes, again, to for dealing with all bot work. This year's bot, as well as running smoothly, is doing some very helpful things that last year's did not. Also, thanks to for some helpful behind-the-scenes updating and number crunching.

Some news for those who are interested- March will see a GAN backlog elimination drive, which you are still free to join. Organised by WikiProject Good articles, the drive aims to minimise the GAN backlog and offers prizes to those who help out. Of course, you may well be able to claim WikiCup points for the articles you review as part of the drive. Also ongoing is the Great Backlog Drive, looking to work on clearing all of the backlogs on Wikipedia; again, incentives are offered, and the spirit of friendly competition is alive, while helping the encyclopedia is the ultimate aim. Though unrelated to the WikiCup, these may well be of interest to some of you.

Just a reminder of the rules; if you have done significant work on content this year and it is promoted in this round, you may claim for it. Also, anything that was promoted after the end of round one but before the beginning of round two may be claimed for in round two. Details of the rules can be found on this page. For those interested in statistics, a running total of claims can be seen here, and a very interesting table of that information (along with the highest scorers in each category) can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:46, 28 February 2011 (UTC)

Happy Birthday
Monterey Bay (talk) 03:02, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

Suffolk CR 11 & NYS Bike Route 25A
How does the inclusion of New York State Bicycle Route 25A make the article on County Route 11 (Suffolk County, New York) worse? DanTD (talk) 17:13, 23 March 2011 (UTC)

Hello dear me
This user is not Arabian but Persian, and I do not know the Persian language to tell him about this, and thank you. I send him an English message on his own user page here. ترجمان05 (talk) 18:43, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 March newsletter
We are half way through round two of the WikiCup, which will end on 28 April. Of the 64 current contestants, 32 will make it through to the next round; the two highest in each pool, and the 16 next highest scorers. At the time of writing, our current overall leader is with 231 points, who leads Pool H.  (Pool G) also has over 200 points, while 9 others (three of whom are in Pool D) have over 100 points. Remember that certain content (specifically, articles/portals included in at least 20 Wikipedias as of 31 December 2010 or articles which are considered "vital") is worth double points if promoted to good or featured status, or if it appears on the main page in the Did You Know column. There were some articles last round which were eligible for double points, but which were not claimed for. For more details, see WikiCup/Scoring.

A running total of claims can be seen here. However, numerous competitors are yet to score at all- please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. The number of points that will be needed to reach round three is not clear- everyone needs to get their entries in now to guarantee their places! If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 01:02, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

New York State Bicycle Route 308
I fixed the image you had for New York State Bicycle Route 308 that you mentioned on the List of New York State Bicycle Routes talk page. Did you ever find any evidence of the exact location of the route? DanTD (talk) 15:39, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Pennsylvania Route 192
I remember asking you for some history on a state route. As I type this, I am beginning to recall what it was for.. state parks on 192. Thanks for the history and have a good day. Dincher (talk) 18:37, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the memory jogging. Dincher (talk) 19:01, 2 April 2011 (UTC)

New York portals
Hey, I just noticed that you were the one who helped promote the Finger Lakes portal. I was wondering if you'd care to take a look at Portal:Hudson Valley, which has been nominated at FPOC. Maybe you have some nice Hudson Valley pictures that aren't in rotation? --Gyrobo (talk) 15:25, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

GA Harriman (Erie Railroad station)
You said that you did not object to my reviewing your articles, so I have given you an expedited review. I hope you find my suggestions helpful. Thank you for an interesting article. Please do not consider this an routine "on hold notice." Racepacket (talk) 23:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 April newsletter
Round 2 of the 2011 WikiCup is over, and the new round will begin on 1 May. Note that any points scored in the interim (that is, for content promoted or reviews completed on 29-30 April) can be claimed in the next round, but please do not start updating your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. Fewer than a quarter of our original contestants remain; 32 enter round 3, and, in two months' time, only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. , who led Pool F, was our round champion, with 411 points, while 7 contestants scored between 200 and 300 points. At the other end of the scale, a score of 41 was high enough to reach round 3; more than five times the score required to reach round 2, and competition will no doubt become tighter now we're approaching the later rounds. Those progressing to round 3 were spread fairly evenly across the pools; 4 progressed from each of pools A, B, E and H, while 3 progressed from both pools C and F. Pools D and G were the most successful; each had 5 contestants advancing.

This round saw our first good topic points this year; congratulations to and  who also led pool H and pool B respectively. However, there remain content types for which no points have yet been scored; featured sounds, featured portals and featured topics. In addition to prizes for leaderboard positions, the WikiCup awards other prizes; for instance, last year, a prize was awarded to (who has been eliminated) for his work on In The News. For this reason, working on more unusual content could be even more rewarding than usual!

Sorry this newsletter is going out a little earlier than expected- there is a busy weekend coming up! A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 19:25, 29 April 2011 (UTC)

New York State Bike Routes
Trivial and disruptive? I don't think so. As far as "See also" chapters," they may be okay for the routes they were named for, but for many of the others they require a little more of an explanation. DanTD (talk) 02:42, 30 April 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't see the big deal here. As far as I'm concerned, all I'm doing is pointing out a feature of these roads. No harm intended. DanTD (talk) 02:55, 30 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, you can see that I added it to the lead on some roads, but on others, these bike routes only applied to certain segments. Is there some concensus against adding them that I missed? DanTD (talk) 03:04, 30 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Okay, but I'm going to have to revert many of your edits. And for those where I didn't add the bike routes to the lead, I'm going to have to change again. DanTD (talk) 03:11, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

While we're on the subject, is there any reason you can think of that the routes listed in Pages that link to "List of New York State Bicycle Routes" is out of order? New York State Bicycle Route 24 should come before NY Bike Route 25, New York State Bicycle Route 27 should come before NY Bike Route 28, and New York State Bicycle Route 114 should come before NY Bike Route 199. DanTD (talk) 04:17, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

Long overdue NRHP action relevant to an article you worked on extensively
See the NRHP's pending actions list from a month ago. Go to the very bottom. 'Bout time (isn't official yet, though). Daniel Case (talk) 17:40, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter, Spring 2011

 * —Rschen7754bot (talk) 02:14, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Yeah
I saw that. All unsorced, too. I'm going to drop him a nice welcome message linking the policies. (namely WP:RS and WP:V. Maybe we can make a good editor out of him, but I doubt it. oknazevad (talk) 04:01, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * I have all NJT lines on my watchlist, so I should be able to keep an eye on any shenanigans he may cause to those articles, but I'm not sure anything can be done beyond reverting anything unsourced or otherwise junk. oknazevad (talk) 04:18, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 May newsletter
We're half way through round 3 of the 2011 WikiCup. There are currently 32 remaining in the competition, but only 16 will progress to our penultimate round. , of pool D, is our overall leader with nearly 200 points, while pools A, B and C are led by, and  respectively. The score required to reach the next round is 35, though this will no doubt go up significantly as the round progresses. We have a good number of high scorers, but also a considerable number who are yet to score. Please remember to submit content soon after it is promoted, so that the judges are able to review entries. Also, an important note concerning nominations at featured article candidates: if you are nominating content for which you intend to claim WikiCup points, please make this clear in the nomination statement so that the FAC director and his delegates are aware of the fact.

A running total of claims can be seen here. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:32, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Photos
Within 24 hours. Between it being hot upstairs and other (physically exhausting) things I did over the weekend I hadn't gotten around to it. Daniel Case (talk) 04:35, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, I've got Pine Island. Which station do you mean by Southfields? The one in Central Valley? Daniel Case (talk) 17:50, 1 June 2011 (UTC)

Here's Central Valley ... what year was it built? Do you know? Daniel Case (talk) 05:46, 12 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I like the Newburgh one. I don't know how Mitch feels about it, but I really hope it can be used in an article. DanTD (talk) 16:49, 16 June 2011 (UTC)

New commons cat, I know you'll like
I just created a whole new commons category for the Main Line of the Erie Railroad, which currently subdivides the Main Line (New Jersey Transit) and the Metro-North Port Jervis Line. Any other pics that you know of that are along the Erie Main Line, you can just plop them in there. DanTD (talk) 15:22, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Kinzua Bridge
I noticed your addition of a navbox. You don't suppose you could also add a little detail on the Erie railroad station at the bridge (maybe just the years it was used). I feel it would be relevant to the article. Thanks, ​​​​​​ ​​ Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 23:37, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Well, even just a mention and a ref would work because currently one could argue that the navbox is unsourced. ​​​​​​ ​​ Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 15:15, 14 June 2011 (UTC)


 * How very neat! I'm going to have to look for information on the other Erie Railroad stations in northwestern Pennsylvania. ​​​​​​ ​​ Niagara ​​Don't give up the ship 01:13, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Walnut Hill (SEPTA station)
I've left an answer to your POV concerns on Talk:Walnut Hill (SEPTA station). All of that line's former stations suffer from the same problem. There's one editor from a group called PA-TEC that has an ax to grind over this route. --Coemgenus 10:34, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I'm pretty sure the pics of the crash from the '80s are not free. I removed them before, but the other editor kept restoring them without adding any usage rationale.  I got tired of fighting it.  If you want to delete them and cut out the POV language, I'll be glad to help you.  --Coemgenus 14:09, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line
Hello, Mitchazenia. This comment "al, ding dong" is highly in inappropriate and violates WP:PA and WP:NICE. Based on your picture riding the E, F, M and R at Roosevelt Avenue, you seem like an intelligent young man who loves the New York Subways. Well, I am an older man who also enjoys the New York Subways. Instead of making juvenile comments like "ding dong," lets grow up and work together on improving this article.Oanabay04 (talk) 19:53, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
 * "um yeah, not allowed' is also not a proper editing comment per WP:POINT. Further conscending comments like this will not be tolerated. If you choose to not reply to your talk, that is fine.

Subway to picnic
86th Street is a local stop. The 1 train stops there.

The 2 and 3 trains are express and (usually) do not stop at 86th Street. --Uncle Ed (talk) 18:30, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

SEPTA good article
I'm looking for SEPTA articles to target for GA-status as per our discussion at Talk:Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line. Honestly, Cheltenham and West Trenton don't interest me that much since I've never used those stations. But I'd like to see a good article for a station on the Main Line (like somewhere between Suburban Station and Glenside). Cornwells Heights is also interesting since it's the only station with park and ride access from a major highway, and it's the only station on the Northeast Corridor north of the city to have Amtrak service (besides North Philadelphia). Or we could focus on the Fox Chase Rapid Transit Line itself. I think any of those would be good articles to, well, make into good article. Writing about major rail or rapid transit lines might be a bit of a task, especially due to the large amount of history behind them. The same goes for the smaller station articles, but that's because that there probably isn't too much history behind them and sources would be hard to locate. Another option would be to write about a closed station like Tioga or Logan, which don't even have articles. Plus it doesn't have to be Regional Rail related. Let me know what you think so we can find something and collaborate if you're interested. – Dream out loud (talk) 22:55, 28 June 2011 (UTC)

Not Wikipedia-related, but ...
... here are those clips I was telling you about:


 * The Good Day New York on-air dustup
 * Ernie Anastos' inadvertent F-bomb
 * Sue Simmons' F-bomb

Read, click and delete. Daniel Case (talk) 04:08, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 June newsletter
We are half way through 2011, and entering the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; the semi-finals are upon us! Points scored in the interim (29/30 June) may be counted towards next round, but please do not update your submissions' pages until the next round has begun. 16 contestants remain, and all have shown dedication to the project to reach this far. Our round leader was who, among other things, successfully passed three articles through featured article candidates and claimed an impressive 29 articles at Did You Know, scoring 555 points. Casliber led pool D. Pool A was led by, claiming points for a featured article, a featured list and seven good article reviews, while pool C was led by , who claimed for two good articles, ten articles at Did You Know and four good article reviews. They scored 154 and 118 respectively. Pool B was by far our most competitive pool; six of the eight competitors made it through to round 4, with all of them scoring over 100 points. The pool was led by, who claimed for, among other things, three featured articles and five good articles. In addition to the four pool leaders, 12 others (the four second places, and the 8 next highest overall) make up our final 16. The lowest scorer who reached round 4 scored 76 points; a significant increase on the 41 needed to reach round 3. Eight of our semi-finalists scored at least twice as much as this.

No points were awarded this round for featured pictures, good topics or In the News, and no points have been awarded in the whole competition for featured topics, featured portals or featured sounds. Instead, the highest percentage of points has come from good articles. Featured articles, despite their high point cost, are low in number, and so, overall, share a comparable number of points with Did You Know, which are high in number but low in cost. A comparatively small but still considerable number of points come from featured lists and good article reviews, rounding out this round's overall scores.

We would again like to thank and  for invaluable background work, as well as all of those helping to provide reviews for the articles listed on WikiCup/Reviews. Please do keep using it, and please do help by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup.

Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here, for those interested, though it appears that neither are completely accurate at this time. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 23:36, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

RE:Florida Roads editor
Helping with the roads project editing Florida articles like something I'd most definitely be interested in doing. Let me know what it entails and we'll go from there. en:User:FrickFrack 18:33, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiCup 2011 July newsletter
We are half way through the penultimate round of this year's WikiCup; there is less than a month to go before we have our final 8. Our pool leaders are (Pool A, 189 points) and  (Pool B, 165 points). The number of points required to reach the next round is not clear at this time; there are some users who still do not have any recorded points. Please remember to update your submissions' pages promptly. In addition, congratulations to PresN, who scored the first featured topic points in the competition for his work on Thatgamecompany related articles. Most points this round generally have, so far, come from good articles, with only one featured article (White-bellied Sea Eagle, from ) and two featured lists (Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story, from PresN and Grammy Award for Best Native American Music Album, from ). Points for Did You Know and good article reviews round out the scoring. No points have been awarded for In the News, good topics or featured pictures this round, and no points for featured sounds or portals have been awarded in the entire competition. On an unrelated note, preparation will be beginning soon for next year's WikiCup- watch this space!

There is little else to be said beyond the usual. Please list anything you need reviewing on WikiCup/Reviews, so others following the WikiCup can help, and please do help if you can by providing reviews for the articles listed there. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews generally at GAC, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup- points are, of course, offered for reviews at GAC. Two final notes: Firstly, please remember to state your participation in the WikiCup when nominating articles at FAC. Finally, some WikiCup-related statistics can be seen here and here. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges are reachable on their talk pages, or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start receiving or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn and The ed17 11:37, 1 August 2011 (UTC)