User talk:DanTD/Archive. November - December 2016
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Wikipedia:WikiProject United States/The 50,000 Challenge
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Saturday November 12: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences (plus Sunday Indigenous People's Justice event)
| Saturday November 12, 12-4pm: Women in Science Edit-a-thon @ NY Academy of Sciences | |
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  Join us for a full Saturday of social Wikipedia editing at NY Academy of Sciences (drop-in any time!), during which we will create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles covering Women in science for their second annual edit-a-thon!. This event also coincides with the year-long celebration of the Academy's 200th Anniversary and a Women in Red online campaign. Beginning and experienced Wikipedia writers are both welcome, and there will be helpers on hand to assist those new to editing the encyclopedia.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 19:26, 10 November 2016 (UTC) And RSVP now for our other event this Sunday in Brooklyn, focusing on Indigenous communities and social justice:
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Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim
| Saturday December 3: Contemporary Chinese Art Edit-a-thon @ Guggenheim | |
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 On Saturday December 3, 2016, in conjunction with a global campaign, the Guggenheim will host its fifth Wikipedia edit-a-thon—or, #guggathon—to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of modern and contemporary artists from Greater China. The event will cap off Wikipedia Asian Month, an online campaign dedicated to augmenting Asian content on Wikipedia throughout November. New and experienced editors are welcome. The event will include a training session for participants who are new to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia specialists will be on hand to provide basic instruction and editing support. Editors are invited to view the exhibition Tales of Our Time following the event. The Guggenheim aims to raise awareness of the artists featured in the Tales of Our Time exhibition supported by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative, and build on the model of campaigns like the Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Women in Architecture, Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at the Guggenheim: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa, and Art+Feminism.
Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues! --Pharos (talk) 09:45, 23 November 2016 (UTC) | |
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Church in Southampton on agenda for nomination to NRHP
Dan,
At the State Historic Preservation Board meeting later this week, the Bridgehampton Methodist Church in Southampton is the only LI nomination on the agenda. It's at 2429 Montauk Highway, a nice big white wooden church if you're able to get out there and take a picture at some point. Daniel Case (talk) 22:54, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
| Wednesday December 21, 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 Babycastles gallery by 14th Street / Union Square in Manhattan. This will be the holiday party! Celebrate a December holiday with us, or in wiki-fashion, edit the calendar itself and join us to celebrate any holiday of your choice regardless of when it usually happens. Featuring special guest presentations on structure data, university library meetups, metrics and reporting, and other topics. We will also follow up on plans for recent and upcoming edit-a-thons, and other outreach activities. We welcome the participation of our friends from the Free Culture movement and from all educational and cultural institutions interested in developing free knowledge projects. After the main meeting, savory and sweet pies and refreshments and video games in the gallery!
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! --Pharos (talk) 21:43, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
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U.S. Route 29 in Georgia
The other editors were not particularly constructive on how you should make the Route description in U.S. Route 29 in Georgia more concise, so I decided to give it a shot. I annotated your first paragraph with comments. I hope these comments are helpful as you rewrite the Route description. VC 04:05, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
Annotated paragraph
US Route 29[1] enters the State of Georgia at the City of West Point,[2] from Lanett, Alabama at a car and truck dealership, that completely dominates the previous block.[3] The road is named Third Avenue[4], and on the opposite side of this dealership is a former Atlanta and West Point Railroad freight station that now serves as the West Point Visitors Center. At West Seventh Street,[5] US 29/GA 14[6] turns right, then crosses a railroad line[7] along Second Avenue only to turn[8] left between there and First Avenue. The road makes a right turn at Ninth Street in order to cross the John C. Barrow Bridge over the Chattahoochee River. Across the river, the name of the street is East 10th Street. At Avenue E, US 29/SR 14 curves[9] north onto West Point Road, and East 10th Street becomes Georgia State Route 18[10]. North of East 11th Street, the road runs between the Point University Gymnasium[11], and the western edge of the Fort Tyler Cemetery[12]. After the intersection with O.G. Skinner Drive, US 29 crosses the A&WP railroad line for the second time and becomes slightly more rural, though it doesn't officially leave the city limits until after a dead end street named Woodlawn Road.[13] Along the way, it passes the rural surroundings along the southeast bank of West Point Lake, which includes recreational areas such as R. Shaefer Heard Park and Long Cane Park, which contains a boat launching area hidden deep in the woods west of the road.[14] This park is named for the former unincorporated community which today consists only of intersections with Gabbettville Road and Lower Glass Bridge Road, including a local gas station/bait and tackle shop.[15] After shifting away from a former segment named "Old West Point Road," the road curves back to the northeast and then to the east after Teaver Road as it enters Woodfield, but then turns back northeast before approaching the intersection with Pegasus Parkway.[16] From that point, it also intersects West Lukken Industrial Drive, part of which leads to the LaGrange Callaway Airport.[17] East of there, the road keeps running in and out of LaGrange, but doesn't completely stay within the city limits until the intersection with Georgia State Route 109,[18] where West Point Road becomes Vernon Street, and it turns east and forms a concurrency with that route west of the West Georgia Medical Center.[19] From this area, it also runs through the Vernon Road Historic District.[20]
- Okay, I understand what you're suggesting, but regarding some of the points you're making; 3)I don't specifically remember mentioning the name of the dealership itself, but that is where the Alabama-Georgia cuts through. 7)As far as the railroad line, I thought I've mentioned on that it was part of the old Atlanta and West Point Railroad line on numerous occasions. 11)The Gym is the only part of the university I know of where it passes by 12)The Cemetery is across the street. 17)The road to the airport is the only way to the airport from US 29/SR 14. 20)I'm glad you liked the fact that I mentioned the historic districts the road passes through. I could consider the possibility of swiping the text from this and adding it to articles on those districts, since so many of them are redlinks. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 20:23, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
Notes
- ^ The abbreviation US 29 should have been introduced already, so use it in all cases here.
- ^ You neither need to wikilink West Point and Georgia nor use such a formal construction as State of or City of.
- ^ This dealership is an example of non-notable information you can remove. Instead, if you wish to provide local color, look for things that you can wikilink. For instance, there are four National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) buildings/districts you can mention, even if they are still redlinks.
- ^ Making sentences dense with information is a good way to be concise.
- ^ If the direction is not necessary to alleviate confusion, consider dropping it.
- ^ Since Georgia always signs the state route concurrency, consider using "the highway" or "the routes" rather than the specific name unless you need to differentiate, avoid confusion, or start a new paragraph. The slashes can be confusing, particularly when you have more than two concurrent routes.
- ^ Identify the company and division of this railroad. US 29 parallels this railroad all the way to Atlanta.
- ^ This is more of a curve than a turn.
- ^ This is an intersection where US 29 turns, not a curve.
- ^ Use a piped link for classes of routes already introduced: SR 18
- ^ Is this gym notable? If not, just mention the university.
- ^ Is this cemetery notable? If not, do not link it. See Wikipedia:Cemeteries
- ^ The rural surroundings and non-notable streets should be removed. Just say: US 29 leaves West Point after its grade crossing of the A&WP railroad line.
- ^ Mentioning the parks by name is fine, but the boat launch details should be cut, even if you can support the information.
- ^ The only notable thing in this sentence is the unincorporated community, which has an NRHP listing.
- ^ None of this information is notable except maybe the hamlet. In particular, if you cannot support that Old West Point Road is a former segment, do not mention it.
- ^ Do mention the airport, but it is not necessary to have a reference. The road to get there is not notable.
- ^ Where exactly city limits are is not important. You can just say the highway enters the city limits at SR 109, and no one would care any better.
- ^ Split this sentence up.
- ^ Mentioning that the highway runs through a historic district is great. What is not great is where the paragraph splits. Having the paragraph split before LaGrange is more natural than having the split within your description of the route through LaGrange. Later, you will need to determine the best places to split the description of the route through Atlanta because that will likely require several paragraphs.
Special route names
I've noticed a tendency in your writing and editing to misname the special routes of highways. The "type" name goes either before or after the parent highway name to avoid splitting it up. In other words:
- U.S. Alternate Route 1 → U.S. Route 1 Alternate or Alternate U.S. Route 1,
- US BUS 2 → Bus. US 2 or US 2 Bus.[1]
The type, or the "banner" if you want to use that neologism, can either precede or follow the parent designation, whether that is a U.S Highway or a state highway. Some state highway names could never have the special route type inserted in the middle, like "Bus. M-28" Imzadi 1979 → 05:39, 31 December 2016 (UTC)
References
- ^ Note, we're moving to prefer the mixed-case abbreviation with a period instead of the all caps version of the abbreviation for the type for Alt., Bus., Byp., Conn., and such, but spelling out the full word for City, Scenic, and Truck.
- FYI, this is the way I've always read them when I'm on the road. -------User:DanTD (talk) 05:44, 31 December 2016 (UTC)