User talk:DanielPenfield/Archives/2019

Category:Schools_in_Bronx_County,_New_York

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Auntof6 (talk) 07:12, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Categorising images - Sydney Showgrounds

Hi there. Thanks for all your great work on categorising images. I'm looking at a few dated from November 2018 where a number of images photographed by Sam Hood during the 1930s were categorised at occurring at Sydney Showground (Olympic Park). However, the showground during the 1930s were located at Paddington and only moved to the Olympic Park in the early 2000s after the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. I have added a new category for the Paddington site and there is no work for you to do; however I thought you should know. Many thanks and keep up the great work. Rangasyd (talk) 06:30, 24 March 2019 (UTC)

Nowruz and Commons

Hi. I know Nowruz very well; I'm from Turkey and lived in other places where Nowruz is celebrated. I also know very well our "box in box" categorization system. Therefore I recommend you not to revert my edits until you also learn the system. Having written about my person I am expecting not to see edit summaries like "celebrated in many countries--see ..." about a festivity thay I also celebrate. I will add Nevruz eggs and semeni pictures here soon." Best. --E4024 (talk) 12:23, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

@E4024: Exactly what this "box in box" categorization system that you claim exists? Is that your baby-talk name for COM:OVERCAT? -- DanielPenfield (talk) 12:34, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Could be. I try to be as simple as possible when trying to make people undertand things that otherwise may seem complicated. Good-bye. --E4024 (talk) 12:38, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

@E4024: Could you use your adult voice, then, and state which of these "Big Boxes" your so-called little boxes (namely Category:Holidays in Iran, Category:Festivals of Iran, and Category:Iranian ceremonies) already belong in?:

• Category:Holidays in Uzbekistan
• Category:Festivals of Uzbekistan
• Category:Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of Iran
• Category:Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity
• Category:New Year celebrations
• Category:Bahá'í holy days
• Category:Intangible cultural heritage by name -- DanielPenfield (talk) 12:45, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Template

Hello, just out of curiosity, what issue was this this template (which name was highly ambiguous btw) born to fix? I find the utility of a template of the states of the U.S., or of the countries of a single U.S. state, but don't see what need this one is aiming to satisfy. Thank you and best regards, -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 22:56, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@Blackcat: It sounds like you should have looked around to answer your own question:

• Template:NY cities was named in the same style as Template:Us cities which itself was set up in 2009
• If Template:NY cities offends your tender sensiblities, you're going to have to register your complaints with the editors who set up at least the following:

• Template:Us cities
• Template:US cities by year
• Template:US cities by month
• Template:Independent cities of the United States
• Template:State capitals of the United States
• Template:Boroughs of New York City
• Template:Cities of Virginia
• Template:Delaware cities nav
• Template:North Carolina cities nav

Regarding your "highly ambiguous" complaint: In what way is it ambiguous? Is it because you believe that New York City contains cities as New York State does? Is there some other "New York" entity that you believe contains cities? -- DanielPenfield (talk) 23:42, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

As for the last point, the main category is Cities in New York (state). The other templates, in order to keep consistency with the naming style, should be named "cities in the United States by month", etc. etc. That apart my question was aimed to know what issue that template solved as I don't see a feasible use of it. It's not a matter of sensitivity, is that I don't see the point in using navboxes beyond a certain level of detail. Regards, -- SERGIO ^{(aka the Blackcat)} 10:42, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

@Blackcat:

Your claim	My response
As for the last point, the main category is Cities in New York (state).	No it isn't. It's Category:Cities in New York and it's been named that way since 2004 presumably because there are enough reasonable editors who know that (state) is a completely unnecessary disambiguation for "Cities in New York". That's right, there will in fact never be a "Category:Cities in New York City". Also, you can pretend that a) There exists a navbox (or even template) naming MOS for WikiCommons and b) This fictional navbox (or template) naming MOS for WikiCommons contains a requirement that all navigation templates for a category be named exactly the same as the category (beyond namespace), but as of this writing no such navbox/template MOS exists and no such navbox/template naming requirement exists.
The other templates, in order to keep consistency with the naming style, should be named "cities in the United States by month", etc.	You can pretend all you want that there is a "naming style" for navboxes/templates on WikiCommons, but there is none as of this writing. Note that instead of continuing to browbeat me into naming things according to your vague whims, you could do something constructive like make a proposal that describes your tastes and preferences in detail at COM:CD.
I don't see the point in using navboxes beyond a certain level of detail	I like how you use vagueness effectively here. Exactly what level of detail? Did you even bother to search the Template namespace for "cities" to see how many templates attempt to provide navigation for cities-related categories? Or is it emotionally safer for you to blame a single editor over a single template instead of making a detailed proposal at COM:CD?

-- DanielPenfield (talk) 19:02, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States – Back for 2019!

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File:MorganManningHouseWMHSPlaque.jpg

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Wiki Loves Monuments in the United States 2019 – Last day to enter!

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September 30th is the last day to upload photos for Wiki Loves Monuments! We're thrilled that the United States has almost reached 4,000 contributions so far this year. Of these images, ~370 (~9%) have already been used to help illustrate Wikipedia articles and pages on other wiki projects, which is fantastic.

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Need help from NYC categorizers

Off To Work (135539591)

@DanTD, Jim.henderson, and Tdorante10: File:Off To Work (135539591).jpeg is a photograph looking down a street toward One World Trade Center and 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan. I've tried Google Maps Streetview of Fulton, West, and other streets in Lower Manhattan looking south or southwest, but I can't seem to figure out which street is depicted. Since you all are skilled categorizers of photographs depicting scenes in the Greater New York City area, do you recognize which street it is? Thanks in advance for your help. DanielPenfield (talk) 05:31, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

I often use the 6th Avenue bike lane, and will be at that corner Friday evening on my way to my astronomy club. The narrow field of view makes it a bit tricky; it might perhaps be north of 14th Street but I placed it south. Jim.henderson (talk) 12:50, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

I'll transfer it to the appropriate borough for the time being, or maybe just to the slightly less generic "Lower Manhattan" category. ----DanTD (talk) 13:12, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

UPDATE: I just recognized a rather historic library in the background off to the right. ----DanTD (talk) 13:17, 11 November 2019 (UTC)

Yes, I had formed a suspicion that this was 6th before blowing up the picture, panning around it, and finding that distinctive tower in midground. After that it's a matter of judging the distance by the relative apparent heights of that tower and the background ones. Yesterday morning in Boston the small screen of my laptop (Wikiconference North America) was making it a bit difficult; I'll give it another shot this week on the big home screen to be sure. Maybe something useful will show up in foreground. Jim.henderson (talk) 14:57, 12 November 2019 (UTC)

Thank you both for making quick work of that! -- DanielPenfield (talk) 18:04, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Google Code-In 2019 is coming - please mentor some documentation tasks!

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