User talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2024/Oct

DYK for Edward S. Harkness House

On 1 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edward S. Harkness House, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that when the Edward S. Harkness House was built, its owner took the address from his neighbor? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edward S. Harkness House. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Edward S. Harkness House), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Tiffany & Co. flagship store

The article Tiffany & Co. flagship store you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Tiffany & Co. flagship store for comments about the article, and Talk:Tiffany & Co. flagship store/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article is eligible to appear in the "Did you know" section of the Main Page, you can nominate it within the next seven days. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Premeditated Chaos -- Premeditated Chaos (talk) 02:29, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Template:New York City Subway

It appears the template was rightly flagged for the colored bullets-should we finally revert this back? Thanks. Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 20:21, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up @Kew Gardens 613, but I disagree that the template is over colored. These are the real-life route emblems, and I don't quite see how they violate MOS:COLOR; the rest of the navbox is in compliance with that guideline. However, if you want, you can change these to regular links. Epicgenius (talk) 21:32, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Commercial property analytics company (CoStar Group)

Hi. I saw you listed as a member of WP:ARCH and, based on your interest in buildings, thought you'd be interested in some ideas about how to restructure the page for CoStar Group who deals with real estate analytics. Because I have a COI, I put my suggested edits in this conversation. If you have a chance to read it over and you agree that it improves the article, I'd appreciate you implementing it.

Thank you so much for your help, Hbensur (talk) 21:46, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Freedom of panorama

We have lost multiple images of stations (of which there are a limited number) since a user is overzealously deleting any images that have any small feature that might be copyrighted (it goes well beyond transit). There would be no images of Times Square if FOP was interpreted this way. Is there anything you think can be done about this? Thanks. Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 20:19, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

Oof, yeah, that is pretty annoying. Awesome Aasim said in one of these discussions that "I'd say just blur out the billboard and call it a day." I agree, and I think it may be worth asking the Commons administrator if they'd be willing to reinstate a censored version of the picture. I notice that a few of these deleted images are by @Jim.henderson; if he still has the originals for File:Wakefield IRT term jeh.JPG and File:Culver Line over 4th jeh.JPG, maybe he might be willing to blur out the pictures in question and reupload them. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:22, 1 October 2024 (UTC)

There goes another two. Nearly all entrance photos, since they have ads, will likely be wiped in this purge. I think that even censoring them is ridiculous-you don't see news agencies like the Times doing it when an ad happens to be in the background of a photo of a crime scene, a parade, or any other event. This little stuff-missing the spirit of the rules on the books-is why so many people give up or don't even start editing Wikipedia. This helps no one, and, no, Sketchers will not sue us if an ad of theirs from 2008 is in a photo of an entrance to a station. I doubt this is winnable though. Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 11:50, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

@Kew Gardens 613, sadly the user is correct with regard to advertisements. These do have copyright protection in the US. The only remedies are to blur or crop out the advertisements, neither of which is ideal, but at least someone would be able to claim that the entrances are the main subject of the image and that the advertisements are shown in a de minimis way. You could alternatively ask the user, who is nominating the images for deletion, to slow down the pace of their nominations. Epicgenius (talk) 12:32, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

yeah looks like I must learn the software that blurs pictures.Lately I've been snapping directly from Commons App which doesn't provide for any processing. I crop and sometimes rotate in Commons which seems to be most of what is available there Jim.henderson (talk) 12:48, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

DYK for 1939 New York World's Fair pavilions and attractions

On 3 October 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1939 New York World's Fair pavilions and attractions, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that attractions at the 1939 World's Fair included a roller coaster, a ski slope, and scantily clad women? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1939 New York World's Fair pavilions and attractions. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, 1939 New York World's Fair pavilions and attractions), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:04, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of 330 West 42nd Street

Congratulations, Epicgenius! The article you nominated, 330 West 42nd Street, has been promoted to featured status, recognizing it as one of the best articles on Wikipedia. The nomination discussion has been archived.

This is a rare accomplishment and you should be proud. If you would like, you may nominate it to appear on the Main page as Today's featured article. Keep up the great work! Cheers, Gog the Mild (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:05, 3 October 2024 (UTC)

DCWC closing update

The 2024 Developing Countries WikiContest has come to a close! After a thrilling finish to the event with a slew of submissions on the final day, we have our winners. With 608 points, Thebiguglyalien (submissions) comes in third with his series of Kiribati and Botswanan submissions; BeanieFan11 (submissions) flies into second place at the last second with 771 points after a string of good articles about sportspersons; and after leading for much of contest's three months, Generalissima (submissions) finishes with a whopping 798 points to take home the Gold Belt Buckle. Congratulations to our winners!

In addition to his spot in the top three, BeanieFan11 (submissions) also wins the special awards for submitting under the most countries (44 countries) and for writing the most articles about women (15 Did you know? nominations)! Magentic Manifestations (submissions), after making 16 submissions under the Indian flag—15 of them good articles—receives the awards for most submissions for a single country and most featured or good articles promoted. For their submission of one FAC review, five FLC reviews, and 20 GAN reviews, Simongraham (submissions) wins for most article reviews.

The results of the contest have far exceeded any expectations the coordinators had for it at the beginning: among the submissions to the event were 3 FAs, 10 FLs, 88 GAs, dozens of article reviews of every kind, and more Did you know? submissions than we can count! Regardless of your level of participation, every contestant can be proud to have contributed towards a major step in countering the systemic bias on Wikipedia. Every year, millions of readers and editors around the globe use Wikipedia to educate themselves and communicate with others about parts of the world that often receive less attention than they deserve. Thank you for participating with us in the contest and contributing to this effort. The DCWC will return next year and we look forward to seeing you contribute again! However, before that...

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