User talk:PRRfan/Archive 2

List of public art in Philadelphia
I noticed your interest in the above list. Please feel free to add and edit, especially on the format, which I'm struggling through. Or take some photos! Please also note that there's a "more complete" list at User:Slowking4/list of philadelphia public art but it has a lot of flaws. I generally don't add items from that list unless (I can verify the address and get coords), and (I think that I can get a photo (e.g. the statue is from before 1923) or that there could be an article on the work).

I also noticed your interest on User:AgnosticPreachersKid/Dupont Circle. This is related to a project that both SlowKing and I are working on regarding List of RHPs in DC. The idea there is to get all NRHP site photos in DC and start an article for all sites before the Wikimania in DC in August. Any help there would certainly be appreciated.

All the best,

Smallbones (talk) 15:05, 5 January 2012 (UTC)

I really appreciate
your work at Bureau Brothers. I would like to propose one friendly amendment, which I can probably do, tho since you created the chart, I want to run it past you. Since the firm is a foundry pretty much everything they do will be bronze. I'd like to remove the Material column and replace it with an image column. How does this strike you? Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 19:33, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks; kudos to you for starting the piece. Replacing the Material column with Image seems like a fine idea. PRRfan (talk) 04:06, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

It's useful
(I didn't realize you could place ref text under the reflist) It's very useful when you're editing text. When the references are just in the text I really get lost with what I'm reading and it just frustrates me. I always use that now. Darkwarriorblake (talk) 23:37, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Bianca Jade
Hello,

Bianca Jade's Wiki page has been deleted. Is there anything you can do about this? THey are saying that when you go to Google that the name Bianca Jade does not turn up anything with is completely untrue. I don't understand. This is like a smack down on the fitness industry. It is like saying that the fitness industry is not notable. She is doing so much for fitness and women. And all the references have proves that. Can you please help?

Thank you — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShanaScala (talk • contribs) 04:30, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
 * ShanaScala, In order to better answer you, I should read the page that hosted the discussion about whether the Bianca Jade page should be deleted. But I'm having trouble finding it. Do you know where it is? PRRfan (talk) 14:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Oh, here it is. It looks like a quorum (a small quorum) of editors has indeed decided that Jade was not notable. I'm sorry I missed the discussion (I took the page off my Watchlist, and therefore missed the call for discussion); for one thing, some of the editors (unfairly) cast my work as the kind of promotion that I warned you about. And I'm sorry that the time and effort you put in -- in good faith, I believe -- has gone to waste. (And I'm sorry you didn't contribute to the discussion; that was the place to make your arguments for her importance to women and the fashion industry.) But I'm not too surprised that the consensus was to delete the page. I myself wouldn't have argued to delete it; as I told you in our first discussions, I think that Wikipedia, not being paper, can accommodate far more subjects than a dead-tree encyclopedia. But I'm not surprised, as I said, that a plurality of other editors didn't find Jade notable. PRRfan (talk) 16:01, 3 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi. Apologies that I named editors and that I don't, with any regularity, check archived talk pages. You're a fine editor, but the article wasn't, unfortunately. --&#91;&#91;User:Qwerty_Binary&#124;Qwerty Binary&#93;&#93; (&#91;&#91;User_talk:Qwerty_Binary&#124;talk&#93;&#93;) (talk) 13:40, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

ISOG
Hi! My name is Anita Brenner.

I noticed you cut ISOG from the NIP page. Just wanted to make sure you knew about the impact of this book. As you know, there will be 2 million civilians who are vets of the recent wars by 2014. All proceeds from the book go to vets charities. The book sold out on the first print run, sold out on the second and now there are back orders and a third and fourth run by NIP. Here's a quote from Tom Brokaw

"This is a must read for all Americans - an up close and personal account of duty and sacrifice by graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy in Iraq and Afghanistan. You'll stand a little straighter when you mingle with these remarkable fellow citizens."

Tom Brokaw Author of The Greatest Generation

The book is noteworthy because 1. it is authoried by the first USNA Class to graduate after September 11th, 2. there are 33 authors and 4 editors, 3. All proceeds go to vets charities, and 4. it is following the path of Tom Clancy. Please take a look and please let it stay on the NIP webpage. 18:24, 15 August 2012 (UTC)~Signed Anita Brenner, Pasadena, CA August 15, 2012 (Not logged in, my login is Anitabrenner) PS you can look inside the book on Amazon and at the website.
 * Hi, Anita. I'm happy to hear the book has exceeded the expectations set by its publishers, and it's certainly helping a worthy cause, but I don't think it's encyclopedic yet. There are plenty of things that follow in Clancy's path, many projects with multiple editors and authors, and lots of things (if not enough) dedicated to vets' charities. Let's give it a few years and see what its impact has been. PRRfan (talk) 18:44, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Hello "PRRfan" - So, I hope you don't mind if we explore this - I noticed dozens of new books on Wikipedia like Hollow Earth (novel) Behind the Beautiful Forevers and Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars that have not sold as well and rank lower on Amazon and B&N. What makes a book encyclopedic, and is there a different test for inclusion in the NIP article? Anitabrenner (talk) 19:23, 15 August 2012 (UTC)


 * Hi, Anita. You raise good points. But before we get to that, I see that you have readded ISOG to the USNI page, despite our ongoing discussion. That's considered bad form on Wikipedia, where the usual process is BRD: someone makes a bold edit, someone else reverts it, and then the page stays that way during discussion. I see you're just getting started on Wikipedia, so I'll just put that back while we talk. I also see that you're apparently one of the book's contributors. (I am very sorry for your loss, and I admire you for writing about your son in an effort to inspire and help others.) But this raises a whole 'nuther issue. In keeping with Wikipedia's core principle of writing from a neutral point of view, people with close personal connections to an article are cautioned to tread lightly. As it happens, I've just been through a somewhat contentious edit-and-discuss process with another editor with a strong personal connection to a page she edited. The outcome: other editors deemed the page too promotional and voted to delete it. I'm not terribly eager to get into another similar discussion so soon; will you take my word as a longtime WP editor that a co-author who talks up her book on Wikipedia, let alone creates a page for it, is likely to be harshly judged? People get banned for that, no joke. I'm generally of the opinion that since Wikipedia's not a paper encyclopedia, there's generally no harm in including more articles rather than fewer. So I wouldn't argue for deleting the article about In the Shadow of Greatness (and I won't, in the not-farfetched event that the page gets nominated for deletion). But coming back to the United States Naval Institute page itself, I do think that it is premature to mention ISOG in the same breath as some of the most successful books that the USNI has published in its 139-year run. PRRfan (talk) 20:44, 15 August 2012 (UTC)

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List of incidents at TSA article
Hi PRRfan, I noticed you commented two years back on the growing list of incidents at the Transportation Security Administration article. That list has continued to grow for the past two years. I've made a proposal there to WP:SPINOFF that section into its own article to avoid overweighting the main article. Would you care to comment? Thanks for all your work, -- Khazar2 (talk) 09:41, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Chief, hold off on tweaking until later on tonight. Let me get the round of changes in, then feel free to go back and give it the PRRfan touch :-)   Thanx! Oanabay04 (talk) 19:30, 5 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Roger wilco. PRRfan (talk) 19:36, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Hurricane Sandy infobox
Please do not change the "Fatalities" parameter to "Deaths" in the Hurricane Sandy infobox. There is no "Deaths" parameter, so it breaks the template. Thank you. Inks.LWC (talk) 06:34, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah. Thanks. Guess I'll go change the template, and see if anyone objects. PRRfan (talk) 19:47, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Bring it up on the talk page or project first. Inks.LWC (talk) 23:07, 11 November 2012 (UTC)

Broken reference at Gray's Ferry Bridge
One of your edits today or yesterday at Gray's Ferry Bridge broke one of the references at the bottom of the page. —Mark Dominus (talk) 20:14, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Fixed; thanks. PRRfan (talk) 02:22, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Season's tidings!
To you and yours, Have a Merry ______ (fill in the blank) and Happy New Year! FWiW Bzuk (talk) 21:23, 23 December 2012 (UTC)