User talk:DanTD/Archive. April - June 2019
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April 17: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC + April 4 and 5: LaGuardia Community College Translatathon 2019
| April 17, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 21:05, 3 April 2019 (UTC) | |
| Thursday April 4 and Friday April 5: Translat-a-thon NYC 2019 @ LaGuardia Community College | |
 Translat-a-thon NYC 2019 @ LaGuardia Community College is hosting the second annual Wikipedia Translatathon! At this event on Thursday evening and during the day Friday this week, anyone from the public is invited to LaGuardia to join students, professors, and CUNY faculty in translating Wikipedia articles among any languages which attendees understand. Themes for this event include public health and the history of New York City. New York City has a large immigrant population and great diversity of speakers of various languages. Among all schools in New York City, LaGuardia has the highest percentage of immigrant students, the highest percentage of students who speak a language other than English as their first language, and the greatest representation of language diversity. It is a strength of LaGuardia that it can present "Wikipedia translatathons", which are Wikipedia translation events. | |
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| May 22, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. Featuring this month a presentation by Interference Archive guests, and a group discussion on the role of activist archives and building wiki content based on ephemeral publications and oral histories. To close off the night, we'll also have Wikidojo - a group collaborative writing activity / vaudeville! We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 17:09, 16 May 2019 (UTC) | |
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Phoenix Police Museum
You know, I'm the guy who reverted your addition about the police cruiser, but when you're right, you're right. In this case you were right and I was wrong! Whenever I'm wrong I let the other user know it. Besides you seem to love cars and know more about them then I do. Thank you for your edits on the article. Your fellow Wikipedian Tony the Marine (talk) 02:53, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- You're welcome. I only wish I knew more, because there are so many unidentified cars in Wikipedia. And since you already identified one image of it as a 1986 Chevy Celebrity, I should've added a category for '86 Chevys. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 02:57, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- A category is a great idea. I want to share with you that during my last documentation trip (I document historical buildings and so on) with my family, I came upon two police cars that you may want to check out to make sure my sources were correct. One is a 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Police car in the town of Seligman, Az, see:Seligman, Arizona and the other a 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air police car #1 a.k.a. "Jingles" in the City of Kingman, Az, see:List of historic properties in Kingman, Arizona. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:01, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- Done. And I'm glad you showed them to me, especially the Chrysler. Because I found some New Yorkers that still had to be moved to more specific categories there, and I fixed those too. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 18:15, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
- A category is a great idea. I want to share with you that during my last documentation trip (I document historical buildings and so on) with my family, I came upon two police cars that you may want to check out to make sure my sources were correct. One is a 1953 Chrysler New Yorker Police car in the town of Seligman, Az, see:Seligman, Arizona and the other a 1954 Chevrolet Bel Air police car #1 a.k.a. "Jingles" in the City of Kingman, Az, see:List of historic properties in Kingman, Arizona. Tony the Marine (talk) 18:01, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
June 19: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC (stay tuned for Pride on weekend!)
| June 19, 7pm: WikiWednesday Salon and Skill-Share NYC | |
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You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for our monthly "WikiWednesday" evening salon (7-9pm) and knowledge-sharing workshop at Metropolitan New York Library Council in Midtown Manhattan. Is there a project you'd like to share? A question you'd like answered? A Wiki* skill you'd like to learn? Let us know by adding it to the agenda. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, museum and library projects, education initiatives, and other outreach activities.
We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 05:37, 18 June 2019 (UTC) | |
| Stay tuned for details om next event! Sunday Jun 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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June 2019 NYSHPO meeting LI nominations
There were two on Long Island, both in Suffolk County, one of which is way out there (by which I mean, at practically the tip of the North Fork:
- Frederick and Annie Wagner Residence and St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, 37 Juniper Avenue and 38 Mayflower Avenue, Smithtown. Gustav Stickley-designed house of Wagner, apparently influential in the development of American motorsports in the early 20th century, now used as rectory by church that is itself housed in a lovely Tudor Revival building.
- East Marion Main Road Historic District, generally Main Road, Bay Avenue and Cemetery Avenue in East Marion, a/k/a Way the Hell Out There. Basically shows how East Marion gradually became a less isolated fishing village over two centuries as the road and rail came in.
Hope you can get pictures of these. Daniel Case (talk) 04:17, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Sunday June 23: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art
| June 23, 12:30pm: Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art | |
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 You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for Wiki Loves Pride @ Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Upper East Side. Togethe, we'll create new and expand existing Wikipedia articles on LGBT artists and artworks with LGBT themes in the Met collection! With refreshments, and a special museum tour in the afternoon! And there will be a wiki-cake! Open to everyone at all levels of experience, wiki instructional workshop and one-on-one support will be provided. See also the global Wiki Loves Pride photo contest, as well as the Met's online LGBT Art Writing Contest, and also the LGBT Health Writing Contest.
This is the fifth annual Wiki Loves Pride edit-a-thon supported by Wikimedia NYC! Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Wikimedia New York City Team 16:30, 22 June 2019 (UTC) | |
| Stay tuned for details on next event! Sunday July 14: Great American Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island | |
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Stupid page moves
If you aren't already aware, the mass moving of NYC Subway articles is now taking place. I tried to stop it, but was unable to. I would love if you continued to edit and expand articles in the project. Thanks for all your contributions!--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 16:49, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- Well, there's still a lot of additions and corrections that I feel need to take place, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to limit my activity on WP:NYPT much further. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 17:00, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- I really understand the frustration you have about it. I am very frustrated. I don't understand why this makes you feel the need to limit your activity. Just boycotting the project won't make anything better. As you have said, there is a lot of additions and corrections that need to take place. While WP:NYCPT is better off than other projects for transit systems in that we have more editors, and more really dedicated editors, just the loss of a few editors, such as yourself, would really set the project back. There won't be someone to "take your place" and you have a very extensive knowledge of the transit system. For instance, you know more about the history of elevated lines than anyone else in the project. I want to tackle the elevated lines at some point, but already have a lot on my plate and have work to do for a part-time job. I urge you to reconsider your decision to limit your activity further. In any case, I thank you for your contributions to the project.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm glad you appreciate what I've done, and believe it or not, there are still some things I want to do before I make it permanent. There are two Archer Avenue Line stations that should have their galleries split by platforms, as well as 36th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line), 50th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), and 145th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), etcetera, which should have their galleries for each line split. There are also some construction categories in the commons as well as bus categories in the commons that ought to be split. At least one historic bus (commons:Category:General Motors TDH-5106 (7144)) should get more images. And I was looking forward to a separate category for the Zeckendorf Tower entrances at the 14th Street-Union Square (New York City Subway), but the renames have made me not even want to look at the articles. In the meantime, I'm trying to find a way to lock all my railroad-related user pages. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 17:38, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- The best way to show your disdain for the decision made against our will is to assert your rights as an editor, and continue being a force to be reckoned with in WP:NYCPT. Even since you had first cut back your edits in the project, you have made valuable contributions, and I was really looking forward to see what would come of and help you with User:DanTD/Sandbox/North Shore Bus Company Bus routes/new version. Once again, I hope that your decision to leave permanently. Thanks so much for your work and whatever you elect to Dom stay well.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 16:32, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
- @DanTD and Kew Gardens 613: Believe me, I have tried myself to prevent this from happening, but sadly I don’t think there is much more we can do now. A new generation of editors are taking over and have no consideration of all the hard work is past editors have done maintaining the WikiProject. Why bother helping out when outside editors have shown blatant disrespect to us and our reasonings? Not to mention a lot of them have hardly, if ever, contributed to the project. Then they want to interject their bureaucratic opinions and then disappear once they got what they wanted, never to be seen or heard from again. I’m sick of it. Unless the rules change (which they probably won’t), the I don’t see any point in trying to give any insight when others are just inconsiderate or ignorant to the WikiProject. And I don’t even want to get started about sellouts that thought conforming to the new naming conventions of WP:Trains in the first place. —LRG5784 (talk · contribs · email) 01:28, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
- The best way to show your disdain for the decision made against our will is to assert your rights as an editor, and continue being a force to be reckoned with in WP:NYCPT. Even since you had first cut back your edits in the project, you have made valuable contributions, and I was really looking forward to see what would come of and help you with User:DanTD/Sandbox/North Shore Bus Company Bus routes/new version. Once again, I hope that your decision to leave permanently. Thanks so much for your work and whatever you elect to Dom stay well.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 16:32, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
- I'm glad you appreciate what I've done, and believe it or not, there are still some things I want to do before I make it permanent. There are two Archer Avenue Line stations that should have their galleries split by platforms, as well as 36th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line), 50th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), and 145th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), etcetera, which should have their galleries for each line split. There are also some construction categories in the commons as well as bus categories in the commons that ought to be split. At least one historic bus (commons:Category:General Motors TDH-5106 (7144)) should get more images. And I was looking forward to a separate category for the Zeckendorf Tower entrances at the 14th Street-Union Square (New York City Subway), but the renames have made me not even want to look at the articles. In the meantime, I'm trying to find a way to lock all my railroad-related user pages. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 17:38, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
- I really understand the frustration you have about it. I am very frustrated. I don't understand why this makes you feel the need to limit your activity. Just boycotting the project won't make anything better. As you have said, there is a lot of additions and corrections that need to take place. While WP:NYCPT is better off than other projects for transit systems in that we have more editors, and more really dedicated editors, just the loss of a few editors, such as yourself, would really set the project back. There won't be someone to "take your place" and you have a very extensive knowledge of the transit system. For instance, you know more about the history of elevated lines than anyone else in the project. I want to tackle the elevated lines at some point, but already have a lot on my plate and have work to do for a part-time job. I urge you to reconsider your decision to limit your activity further. In any case, I thank you for your contributions to the project.--Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 17:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)