User talk:DanTD/Archive. November - December 2009

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New York City Meetup Next: Sunday November 15th, Columbia University area Last: 09/13/2009 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, review the recent Wikipedia Takes Manhattan, plan for the next stages of projects like Wikipedia at the Library and Wikipedia Loves Landmarks, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects, for example particular problems posed by Wikipedia articles about racist and anti-semitic people and movements (see the September meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and generally enjoy ourselves and kick back.

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This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 03:18, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for telling me about that. I see the book is available on Amazon so that might be an interesting buy. Murjax (talk) 17:35, 6 November 2009 (UTC)

Confused, what do you mean: is there already an article about it? Nyttend (talk) 02:25, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I just discovered Lafayette, Indiana (Amtrak station). Nyttend (talk) 02:30, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

I don't know when they opened either. I've tried to find Metra opening dates before for other stations, and all of the older Metra stations are terribly hard to find opening dates for; there aren't any Metra fansites that I know of (I wish there was a Metra equivalent of chicago-l.org), and Metra itself doesn't provide any information. Aside from digging through old news archives or books, I don't know where to get old Metra opening dates. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 23:52, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Dan (I presume? :)), I removed a large number of instances of the Massachusetts Turnpike shield where they were used as icons, at 20px dimensions or less. The guideline at WP:MOSLOGO contains a specific prohibition against the use of copyrighted imagery as icons, "Use of [copyrighted] images as icons is nearly always prohibited". Further, WP:NFG notes a prohibition on using fair use images in gallery/tabular format, the underlying principle being that it fails WP:NFCC #1 replacability concerns and #8 significance. In the case you want to use this icon on New York State Thruway, we already have the words "Massachusetts Turnpike" which is sufficient to convey meaning. I am reverting your re-addition of the iconicized logo and the additional FUR to the image. Thanks, --Hammersoft (talk) 14:40, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm just trying to arrange it so that the shield can be used in both articles. You've got the Garden State Parkway shield being used on that spur, and nobody's complaining about that. The same goes for every time Interstate 95 crosses a state line. ----DanTD (talk) 14:47, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

• The Garden State shield isn't copyrighted, and therefore can more readily be used. Same goes for Interstate shields, and most state shields. Unfortunately, this state shield is copyrighted. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:48, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

So you're going to eliminate this everywhere, including on the Interstate 90 in Massachusetts article? That bites! Somebody has to create a non-free version of this. The same goes for the Maine Turnpike logo. ----DanTD (talk) 14:53, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

• I have eliminated it everywhere it was used as an icon in violation of our guidelines, yes. As for the Maine Turnpike, there is no logo on Wikipedia for it other than the I-95 shield, which is public domain. I'm very sorry about this, but non-free imagery has to jump through a lot of hoops to be permissible here. --Hammersoft (talk) 14:56, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

(also note I am merging discussions to your talk page, so we have it all in one place...I'll follow along here if you have anything else you want to say) --Hammersoft (talk) 14:57, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

Well, they're not merged. The old structure involved breaking up {{Infobox Station}} into individual components, which diverged significantly over time from the main template. This change brings those boxes back into line with the rest of the encyclopedia. This really needs to happen, for technical reasons if nothing else. Is there something in particular that doesn't look right? Mackensen (talk) 16:12, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Replied on my talk page. Let's centralize there. Mackensen (talk) 16:25, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

Ping. The font size on {{Infobox Station}} is larger now and matches other infoboxes. Can we revisit this? Mackensen (talk) 01:04, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

I've completed merging all the CTA infoboxes and I'm planning to start on the remaining station/NRHP articles. Any objections? Mackensen (talk) 03:33, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi Dan, I may be able to help (in between moving house). What exactly is it you are trying to do? Give me an example at least. Cheers. --Bermicourt (talk) 15:45, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Roger, are you trying to write the articles from scratch on de:wiki or just link them to the museum home pages? I'm only able to help with translating existing de:wiki articles to en:wiki. Quite a few of the blue links on the latter were translated by me, especially in Bavaria. --Bermicourt (talk) 19:31, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

After I started changing the links from "CTA" to "List of Chicago Transit Authority bus routes" on 'L' and Metra station pages you began to do something similar with Pace bus routes. At the time I agreed, but now I'm thinking using List of Pace bus routes might be a better link than Pace (transit). (Okay, so I only just bothered to look for such a page today.) Granted, the list for Pace bus routes is rather primitive in comparison to that for CTA.

Additionally, given that any user fixing pages with AWB removes the wikimarkup in the headlines, I'm wondering if the pages should be changed from

to

CTA

even if there are only connections for the one service at a station. These type already exist for stations with more than one bus service. Lost on Belmont (talk) 03:40, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

• Take note that there's a template which helps with formatting and provides a link to Pace's website: {{Pace web}}. Mackensen (talk) 13:10, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

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