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User talk:TwinsMetsFan/Archive 07
Hawaii road signsHey I was wondering if you had the time to create some more Hawaii road sign images. I'm in the process of creating some new articles on the number roads in Hawaii pretaining to those on the island of Kauai. I've already seen your work over at Wikipedia Commons. It would be greatful thank you. Spongefan 21:58, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Ohio Turnpike et al shields questionThis could potentially impact us all, but I'm chatting with NE2 about his recent edit on Interstate 76 (east). You can read all the info at his talk page. Your thoughts? --MPD T / C 23:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
NY 9MHi. I noticed you removed 9M from the NY Routes completion list. I think 9M did exist but the current sources I have don't list it though. It could be the designation was short lived and/or a minor road. I know the suffixed 9's (as originally established) just go from south to north so it must be a road connecting to US 9 between Lake George and Elizabethtown. (9N used to be Keeseville-Elizabethtown only before 1940). I should be able to get more information from the old map collection at the library tomorrow. Related to this, 17L is another one that didn't seem to exist. 17A to 17J were created in the 1930 renumbering. 17K and 17M were added later. The M might have stood for Middletown, which is why L might have been skipped but I'm not sure. --Polaron | Talk 22:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Thank YouThanks for cleaning up the Pennsylvania routes that i fixed and i know your a New York man so i really appriciate it. I not that great with writing articles so i could use some help with these PA highways. I'll try to help with New York highways as well. Cheers! -- JohnnyAlbert 14:55, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
I fixed New York State Route 28. This route is very long so my description is long as well. Check the junction list, where NY 28 meets I-88 i think there's a mistake because the person who created the junction list forgot to include NY 7 and it saids the NY 28 has concurrency with I-88. -- JohnnyAlbert 21:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
NYSR-NYCR Newsletter - Issue 3
Wikiproject: New York RatingsHey TMF, I saw that you had enabled project ratings for the WP:NY - Thank you! I'm trying to go through the pages that I'm familiar with and assign ratings, though I'm having a little bit of difficulty in assigning importance values to a number of pages - mainly in reference to the guide that's provided. I.e., should all counties be "mid" importance, or some higher than others? Somehow it'll always be biased towards what the rater is thinking or coming from, regardless of how objective they try to be. Its challenging, but enjoyable. Though I just wish that the project was a bit more active - I would like to get a conversation going regarding this, but it doesn't seem like anyone checks the project's dicussion pages. Anywho, how good is that Benson deal looking now? (yeah, I'm a Mets fan too). take care -- Oaxaca dan 14:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
WP:NJSCR Newsletter 2
OopsThanks for catching the stray talk page for MN-82. I thought I caught em all for AWB tagging, but apparently I didn't *_* • master_sonLets talk 18:07, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey TMFSorry to bother you, but you noticed the exit list on Interstate 78 in Pennsylvania? A friend of mine told me that you taged it after he created it. Please let the exit list stay, you got Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey) that won the Good Article thing with that exit list also think about Interstate 78 in New Jersey. -- JohnnyAlbert10 Time to talk · My Help 18:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I like the New York Mets too. But the Phillies concern me this year, they're really good and i hope my favorite player Pedro Martinez who's from the same heritage as me returns healthy. -- JohnnyAlbert10 Time to talk · My Help 20:16, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
You helped choose Ridge Route as this week's WP:USRD/AID winnerRschen7754 (talk - contribs) 05:29, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
I-78 (PA) exit listI made the exit list compliant to project standards on Interstate 78 in Pennsylvania. You guys need to fix those exit lists in New Jersey: Interstate 295 (Delaware-New Jersey), Interstate 195 (New Jersey), Interstate 78 (New Jersey), and other ones i think. -- JohnnyAlbert10 Time to talk · My Help 16:23, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 07:40, 20 February 2007 (UTC) Your quick questionIt has to do with second reference, a concept the MoS doesn't seem to go into much unlike most style manuals, nor does that discussion you linked to. Perhaps it should. Here would be my reasoning for my way of doing it. I don't think it's necessary to say the full "New York State Route XXX" or whatever every single time you mention a route in an article, anymore than you use your full name every time you say or write it. You're going to lose non-road readers PDQ that way — it'll make their eyes glaze over. When the article title uses that, and the lede does, with that short form right afterwards, then you establish to the reader that it's other state highways in the same (or other states') system you're referring to. "Route" alone, as the AP Stylebook recommends for newswriters unless more info is required to keep the context clear, is too ambiguous for us when you're talking (or could conceivably be) about U.S., state and county routes in the same article. "State Route" isn't much better (and brings up those naming move wars we had ... if we followed that, we'd have many different short forms in each state). Consider that no one has a problem with "U.S." alone, implying "Route", as in "The shopping mall is at 355 U.S. 1 in Podunk". People thus understand that concept when it's applied to the states (especially since the two-letter postal abbreviations are in wide use on the Internet) and then retroactively take the periods out of "U.S." for use with highway designations. And to me the postal Consider also that our own DOT here in NY used to sign exits that way before it switched over to shields ... back in the 1980s, when I went to Syracuse to start college. I can remember the Hancock exit on Route 17 being "NY 97 NY 268 PA 191", for one thing. Granted, I've noticed I spell out "Interstate" on first reference and drop to the more jargony "I-" on second, so I can't be accused of being entirely consistent on the issue (But in that case, I'd say that references to interstates are less common in articles than other state routes, and that's also following AP style). You're welcome!Thanks for the praise on the article! It was another one of those situations where I just thought I'd do a few things and move on to another thing (a pending project peer review on a film article that's probably already FA quality but I insist on taking it through the process) but it just snowballed (Ditto with U.S. Route 6 in New York. I think, if you're not planning to do it, I'll try to get a U.S. Route 209 in New York done soon (it would be very easy to write and I'm familiar with the entire length. I should also address US 9W and NY 32, which I can do nice long routes for). If you want to get a GA out of it, I think we'll need some solid refs to back up the history and some of the claims in the article we both know are true ("longest north-south highway in NY", "only three-route U.S concurrency in the state"). I also think we could do better with the history (if we want FA quality, we need a lot of stuff from local historians going back to whatever Indian trails existed along the route and things like that. For a lot of routes besides U.S. 9, I'll add). I'm also going to put up a list of photos it would be nice to have. How can Wikipedia not have a photo of the Dunn Memorial Bridge anywhere? (I haven't found a free one yet). I'll be going up to Albany at some point, perhaps more than once, in the next month. I'll try then. I also think one of the final cul-de-sac would be essential. We could also have some along-road scenery in Columbia County come warmer weather, with vibrant greens and blues, somewhere in the deep Adirondacks where you see just road and forest as far as the eye can see, and maybe some mountains and lakes too. Also, the Lake Champlain shore or some view of the lake from the road (dirty little secret: I've never actually been up there myself, I just used the map\satellite hybrid at Google to give me some idea of what the off-road terrain was like. But I will someday, I'm sure). Speaking of history and photos, I've come across a nice collection in our library of work by William Crabtree, one of the founders of the Montgomery Worsted Mills. In the 1890s, apparently, he was into this new thing called photography so he took lots of pictures of our area, all sepia-tone and public domain now. Wouldn't it be cool to have, in the NY 17K article, one of these pictures showing the dirt road leading past the Patchett House that's now recognizably 17K in eastern Montgomery? Daniel Case 22:38, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
USRD Newsletter - Issue 2
Exit List GuideHey, I noticed JohnnyAlbert was having some problems with the New Jersey exit lists. If you agree with the tag, could you explain to me what exactly is not compliant? In creating them, I was following the ELG as best I could. -- NORTH talk 23:21, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm more than happy to start a discussion there, but just to reiterate, there's nothing in the actual guideline (meaning not counting the inconsistent examples) that dictates how to format concurrency termini or state lines. -- NORTH talk 22:54, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
Rockland County RoutesHey TwinsMetsFan, I don't really know a whole lot of computer programming skills. I actually just copied the County Route 80 template that was already on the site, so I went with that. Thats about the extent of what I know, haha, but if you want to make one route site as an example, I can copy and create the rest of the routes. It may take me awhile to do, but I can offer you that. Also, I used the svg shields that were already on the site like CR80, etc. The rest I've made myself as jpeg's, i thought they looked pretty good in the info box. I did use a converter though to svg on the internet for the 100px shields on top of the info box, cause the jpegs wouldnt show. So if you can create the rest of the Rockland County shields in svg that would be awesome. There's about 60 of them so take your time. Airtuna08 22:56, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
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You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 08:41, 27 February 2007 (UTC) You helped choose U.S. Route 20 as this week's WP:USRD/AID winner--Holderca1 16:06, 28 February 2007 (UTC) Other than the use of the ! for the exit numbers, is there anything else with the bottom two examples on my sandbox you find unappealing? I'm fully willing to concede and use ''' instead of ! if it helps us move forward. -- NORTH talk 23:23, 28 February 2007 (UTC) What's upHi what is up, hope you had a great vacation. By the way, i fixed up Pennsylvania Route 65 really good and i think it's a B class for now but i want to go farther and I need tips with what i need for this article to become GA-Class. Oh and want to help make New York State Route 52 a good article and i know it failed last time but we can try again. -- JohnnyAlbert10 Time to talk · My Help 18:58, 2 March 2007 (UTC) CR Shields RequestHey there, Im working on the exit list for the edits I'm doing for the NSP page. Anyways, I was wondering if you could do Nassau County shields for CRs 11, 5, 8, 71, 7, 31, 1, 4, 63, 9, 28, and 190. Thanks a bunch! Jgcarter 01:37, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
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You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC) Your imput, please, if you have a chance...Wikipedia:Editor review/MJCdetroit youngamerican (ahoy hoy) 17:37, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
Re: CR Shields RequestThanks soooo much! This will really help with the exit list! BTW, how do I archive my talk pages? Jgcarter 15:09, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
USRD Newsletter - Issue 3
Active user verificationHello, TwinsMetsFan. Due to the high number of inactive users at WP:USRD, we are asking that you verify that you are still an active contributor of the project. To do so, please add an asterisk (*) after your name on Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Newsletter/List. Users without one by the next issue in 2 weeks will be removed off the list and off the respective road projects as well. If you have any questions, please contact me on my talk page. Thanks. TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 20:14, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
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You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 05:51, 13 March 2007 (UTC) ThanksThanks for all your work on County Route 610 (Middlesex County, New Jersey). The same editor created about five other articles, none nearly as bad as that one, but all completely un-wikified. -- NORTH talk 05:24, 14 March 2007 (UTC) You helped choose Interstate 88 (east) as this week's WP:USRD/AID winnerRschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC) You helped choose Nevada State Route 401 as this week's WP:USRD/AID winnerRschen7754 (talk - contribs) 04:45, 15 March 2007 (UTC) User:BurntsauceYou might want to be on the lookout for this one. User:Burntsauce hasn't done anything terrible or wrong, but this user (for whatever reason) identified my edits to Pennsylvania Route 39 as vandalism, and reverted my changes. However, the next edit was User:Burntsauce reverting it back the way it was before "User:Burntsauce" reverted my edits. This user also did the same thing on Interstate 283 after I changed the infobox to infobox interstate/intrastate. Just wanted to let you know! --myselfalso 23:34, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Stub image sizesThere's not a new standard, but then again, there wasn't exactly an old standard, either, at least in any formal sense. But the majority it seem to no more than 40px wide and 30 high, so I'm going with that whenever I happen to be editing a template that uses a larger size for some other reason anyway (as was the case here), or if I come across anything honkingly large. Alai 22:49, 17 March 2007 (UTC) Just wanted you to know he's trying the same thing with Tops. He doesn't seem interested in discussing things, just reverting others' reverts to his edits. He has IMO lost a good-faith presumption. I will report him and request the page be protected if he forces a 3RR violation. I also note another user has tried and failed to resolve this with him two weeks ago, and given that I'm trying to make an attempt that I doubt will be successful with him, you know what that means. Daniel Case 18:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
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-Mschel 02:37, 23 March 2007 (UTC) USRD Newsletter - Issue 4
Completion list for WP:HbgARHey, I have a completion list for WP:HbgAR: Completion List. --myselfalso 16:22, 26 March 2007 (UTC) Also, if you could make quadrant shields for them, that would be great! --myselfalso 18:23, 27 March 2007 (UTC) Signpost updated for March 26th, 2007.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 14:33, 27 March 2007 (UTC) county route shieldI need a county route shield for Westchester County route 101 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bernstein2291 (talk • contribs) 21:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC). WP:NJSCR Newsletter #3
Question on Interstate 196I noticed you put a clean up on the exit list for that highway. Granted I did some of the work on it but I thought it was up to standards. If I missed something I would like to know but I do not see any issues with the current setup. If you can give me some further info on it, I can address it. One thing to remember is that Mile Number is not needed in the State of Michigan for the interstates since the exit numbers are the mile numbers. --Mihsfbstadium 09:09, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
--TMF Let's Go Mets - Stats 20:46, 28 March 2007 (UTC) KTA logoI made a Kansas Turnpike svg image based on the KTA logo currently being used. It's viewable here as a jpg (I'm not going to upload it yet). A) Would we want to use it? If so B) Criticism and points on it? Aside from the fact that the...what is that, a sunflower?...sucks and needs MAJOR work. Just lemme know any thoughts. Thanks! --MPD T / C 06:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
re:county route shieldThanks for the County route shield Bernstein2291 05:05, 29 March 2007 (UTC) Pennsylvania Route 39 has gotten GA status! --myselfalso 14:42, 1 April 2007 (UTC) Signpost updated for April 2nd, 2007.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 05:25, 4 April 2007 (UTC) Liberty Bridge (Pittsburgh)Hey, could you make a PA QR shield for SR 3069, which is the Liberty Bridge in Pittsburgh? --myselfalso 18:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC) <small> tagsI noticed you fixed the <small> tags on the NJSCR newsletter. I just had to do the same to Issues 3 and 4 of the USRD one. Do you know what's going on? Did the way they render actually change, or did I just never notice it before? -- NORTH talk 23:55, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
re: ky routesreplied on my talk page [1]. Reply requested since I'm confused. --W.marsh 22:39, 8 April 2007 (UTC) Image problemHi, sorry to bother you again so soon, but your edits replacing images don't seem to be working, e.g. [2], seems to be replacing a working image with a redlink, a nonexistant image. Am I missing something here too? --W.marsh 00:25, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
Kentucky Route 876Nice work updating that - I'm not a roads or map geek. If you looked at the history, it was originally quite charmingly non-WP. But there will likely be a problem with that non-free Mapquest link. A free version will have to be drawn, or someone's going to trash the Mapquest link. If you know the rabid SVG map drawers, let 'em know. --Lexein 03:21, 9 April 2007 (UTC) Image:PA QR 2016.svgCould you make USRD Newsletter - Issue 5
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Special note to spamlist users: Apologies for the formatting issues in previous issues. This only recently became a problem due to a change in HTML Tidy; however, I am to blame on this issue. Sorry, and all messages from this one forward should be fine (I hope!) -Ral315 You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 08:31, 10 April 2007 (UTC) I noticed where the infobox had been added to this page. I appreciate that and have added more information to it. I'm wondering though, Tennessee State Route 79 carries both a secondary and primary designation. I would like to use a similar infobox but can't make it display both the Primary and Secondary shields for this particular route. Is there anything special that I should be doing or will a new template need to be created for this? Thanks Pepper6181 06:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
Re: Image on William H. Natcher ParkwayFirst of all, sorry about that. I normally try to correct filename issues but this one slipped through the crack. The file on the commons is commons:Image:I-65_in_Kentucky.jpg.↔NMajdan•talk 12:50, 13 April 2007 (UTC) AB hwy[3] --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs) 03:24, 15 April 2007 (UTC) My username notificationI just wanted to let you know that I had my username changed from Ohioan to my new username OHWiki. -OHWiki 06:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC) Signpost updated for April 16th, 2007.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC) Check out Road#Construction. Then the latest thread on the talk page (Talk:Road#Citations_needed.3F). I can't get on to IRC, but I don't know, I'd like to see some other opinions on that, and maybe you could just let some others on IRC aware of that - ridiculous. --MPD T / C 02:01, 18 April 2007 (UTC) USRD Newsletter - Issue 6
Formatting user talk pagesI am looking for some information about how I can format my talk page in a way that has some of the stuff that you have. I do not want to copy yours, but I would like to find a resource to tell me what to do to get something similar to what you have. --Willy No1lakersfan (Talk - Contribs) 02:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
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You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 07:11, 24 April 2007 (UTC) Shields neededFor County Route 708 (Camden County, New Jersey) County Route 705 (Camden County, New Jersey) Thanks.Mitchazenia 23:52, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
Your RfACould you identify your nominator on the RfA page? If you nominated yourself, please add the words "self nom". If someone nominated you, could that person sign it? Thanks, --Shirahadasha 21:16, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
County Route signI am creating an article about Westchester County Route 43 and I need a shield so can you make it for me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bernstein2291 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 26 April 2007 (UTC). Road templates (like Template:Cleanup-ih)Oh, that's wonderful. I like the way you slimmed it down and made it unobtrusive. It's just a compromise for now, it might not last, but a very nice start. Matt Yeager ♫ (Talk?) 22:45, 30 April 2007 (UTC) Signpost updated for April 30th, 2007.
You are receiving this message because you have signed up for the Signpost spamlist. If you wish to stop receiving these messages, simply remove your name from the list. Ralbot 06:57, 1 May 2007 (UTC) De-stubbing of NYS Highway ArticlesI've noticed there's been some de-stubbing by non-members of the Project (with a project member re-instating this designation); I saw that you did it for NY 90, and I've re-done it for one or two others. I just wonder what the source of all of this is (Project stub sort perhaps)? Still, I did see that someone did de-stub NY 30A and with that, I'm wondering if that article has made its way up to Start status (so for that one, I didn't change the designation). I'm not as able to be as active as I was, but I check the watchlist at least once a day just the same. Fwgoebel 02:33, 5 May 2007 (UTC) And, as a post-script, let me add my congrats to your new Admin status. Fwgoebel 02:39, 5 May 2007 (UTC) USRD Newsletter - Issue 7
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