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I wonder whether the rest of you would feel comfortable using the ((WikiProject New York)) template if it was adjusted to include specific parameters for the Hudson Valley as well. It would reduce the amount of space taken up by banners. John Carter (talk) 21:16, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Given how small and limited its scope is, wouldn't this project work better as a task force of the New York Wikiproject? I've requested some comments from the NY Wikiproject talk page. --♬♩ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
WikiProject New York isn't all that active, really, and has so many articles that carving them up regionally makes more sense. It did for the Syracuse project, anyway (which I would suggest be expanded to something like WikiProject Central New York). There are lots of small NRHP articles that I didn't add to WP:NYS because of their lack of statewide significance. However, as a regional thing it would work better.
I very much favor making this a separate project page but with the banner being the basic WP:NYS banner with a link to WikiProject Hudson Valley. Daniel Case (talk) 19:45, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
Do we start a newsletter for the project? Juliancolton (talk) 19:11, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
It seems like we'll keep the separate project banner. Fair enough ... there are a number of U.S. state projects where a city project has a separate banner, and I don't see why we can't. Although I would like to see some acknowledgement of the NY project in the HV banner.
But can we decide what should be in both projects and what should only be in WP:HVNY? County and major city articles (Newburgh, Poughkeepsie and Kingston, probably Beacon and Peekskill) definitely belong to both NY as a whole and HV.
However, a lot of the RHPs I've been doing really aren't of statewide importance, and I think most schools would be better served by a regional designation. Any other thoughts? Daniel Case (talk) 18:46, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I've also been working (and I still am) to place the project banner and assess as many articles as I can find, and a good part of the are road articles, many of which are only Stub and Start-class. Any thoughts on a HV roads task-force? Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
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The question of what, geographically, constitutes the Hudson Valley is a question independent of Wikipedia and this project, of course. But we need to consider it too.
Any input is welcome. Daniel Case (talk) 05:29, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
Well, I don't think that it would include New Jersey no matter what we do with the project. Now, I still strongly support the keeping of this project as a seperate project, so, I think we should really think about this. This picture
shows that the hudson valley only goes to Dutchess. I dissagree with that, because the valley goes up to Albany, IMO. The actual valley is the area between the two mountain regions; the catskills, and the hinglands on one side, and the takonics.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Julian Colton (talk • contribs)
Ok, now comes the question as to whether to include Westchester. I think so, but I'd like to hear other's opinions. Also, I figured we include our scope on articles all the way up to Albany, and maybe to Tear of the Clouds. Thoughts? Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:34, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Actually, I was thinking articles in the following counties could be included:
I think there's a good case for leaving parts of Yonkers, especially since that's the location of the Hudson River Museum. We'll see more and more communities claiming river heritage in the coming months with the Hudson 400 celebrations in order to qualify for funding. TravellingCari 04:17, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
The other side of this coin is where we draw the line on the north end. I've been doing some NRHP articles relating to Cohoes lately ... are you still in the Hudson Valley where the Mohawk flows in and you're above the limit of navigability at Troy? It would be easier if there were a Capital District project, but there isn't. Daniel Case (talk) 19:01, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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I've been working for a few days to get Category:Unassessed Hudson Valley articles down from 80+ articles to just over 20, and counting. I think we should make it a priority to assess every article with the Hudson Valley tag. Thanks, Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 15:14, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
Is there anyone in this project that can shed some light on Veteran, Ulster County, New York? If I didn't drive past a sign for it from time to time I wouldn't believe that there is such a place; I have had no success in locating any information on it online (as the name isn't exactly unique). It's real enough to be in the HV navigation template, so I was hoping someone could shed some light on it, even if it's not verifiable light. If I ever had a day off that was not a holiday or weekend I would haunt the town halls and the Ulster County Clerk to find out where this place got its name, and exactly what sort of place it is . . . it's a real DYK in the making!--otherlleft (talk) 03:05, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Hello fellow Hudson Valley residents (and other interested parties)! I am working with Camelbinky in creating WikiProject Capital District. For those of you unfamiliar with the area, the Capital District is the area that encompasses Albany, Schenectady, and Troy. We are hoping that some of you would be interested in helping out in marking articles under the scope of this WikiProject. We also need help developing the project page! Many of you probably live here and we'd greatly appreciate your help on this new baby project. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 03:15, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Defining the northern end of the Hudson Valley is a little hard ... Julian and I tentatively agreed that it would be Troy and Watervliet because that's where the navigable river ends. But Hudson Valley has always covered things all the way up to Albany and Troy, and certainly that includes Columbia County as well. Perhaps we should just allow Columbia articles to be listed in both projects, while north of it only riverside communities and river-related things get listed? Daniel Case (talk) 20:57, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
So Mitch's suggestion does make sense to some degree. But I would also want to keep stuff closer to the river up to Troy Dam. Daniel Case (talk) 21:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I think the HV project can take all the communities, and anything of significance, in Columbia County west of the Taconic and east of the Taconic south of either I-90 or NY 23. In Albany and Rensselaer counties, I would include the articles about only the settlements near the river and anything related to the river (tributaries, bridges, and riverside landmarks like Central Troy Historic District and Fort Crailo, say) or of regional significance (the Selkirk rail yard, if we ever get to doing it). Certainly not every RHP article in Albany County will go under HV (I will move U.S. Post Office (Delmar, New York) out of HV and into CD now; that was always an awkward fit). Or every secondary school for that matter. Daniel Case (talk) 23:01, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
I recently finished an overhaul redesign of WP:WikiProject Capital District (compare before and after) and I would be happy to do it for this project as well. Would members be interested in me doing this? Please respond below with a !vote and if there's consensus I'll get working. ~ ωαdεstεr16«talkstalk» 02:29, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
Show me what you'd like to do, and let's get Julian in on this. I was impressed with the WPCD page. Daniel Case (talk) 04:12, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
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I think we need a criteria for importance ratings. Here's what I have in mind:
Thoughts? –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 21:51, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
West Point should probably also be high, and I would argue for the same status for another National Historic Landmark District on the river, the Hudson River Historic District (largest historic district on mainland US, basically the essence of the Hudson Valley in 35 square miles). I would also argue that something like Halve Maen deserves high importance.
Significant regional news events like the PCB cleanup (if we ever devote a separate article to it, which we should) and Tawana Brawley, are probably mid-importance. I also think some larger villages like New Paltz (due to the college) and Catskill (county seat) ought to be of mid-importance as well. And maybe Rhinebeck and Millbrook as well (popular city weekend destination, upscale residence in the first instance and celebrity residences in the other). Daniel Case (talk) 09:10, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
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New York State Route 311 is on the main page as Today's Featured Article. Just a heads-up. –Juliancolton | Talk 00:32, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
I've suggested that Museum at Bethel Woods be merged into the article on the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, of which it is part. A discussion has commenced on the Museum talk page. --JohnnyB256 (talk) 18:56, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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I am working on a sandbox version of a future Tech Valley article here, and I could use some input from people who have more experience with places such as Kingston, Poughkeepsie, and Newburgh. As I continue to work on it the information I will be putting in will continue to make the article more and more Capital District-oriented and that would skew the article from its intent, to cover the entire Tech Valley. Tech Valley is 19 counties including all Hudson Valley counties except Westchester, Rockland, and Putnam. Tech Valley includes Orange, Dutchess, and Ulster all of which are very important high-tech counties.Camelbinky (talk) 00:56, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
Article on the mayor of Poughkeepsie is up for deletion. Interested editors may wish to weigh in. --JohnnyB256 (talk) 17:30, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
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NYC and Hartford are both pretty far away, so I was thinking about organizing a Capitol District meetup. It'll be more convenient for Hudson Valley residents, and we'd probably still see folks from NYC. Just a thought. –Juliancolton Tropical Cyclone 06:22, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
As some members of this WikiProject know, I have taken a position supporting(?) and/or opposing (?) the proposal for WikiProject Capital District and/or WikiProject New York Capital District, in part on grounds that its scope should be defined clearly with respect to WP:HVNY. I believe that for the success of the Capital one, it would be better served by clarifying a borderline inbetween its scope and the scope for WP:HVNY. Could the good people of this wikiproject concede that some downward adjustment of scope of WP:HVNY be allowed, in order to allow for non-overlapping borders? I expect you are the experts, but offhand it has been my understanding that the "Hudson Valley" region refers to counties south of Albany, that the Hudson River school of painting refers to paintings south of Albany, etc. (though I am aware some Hudson River school painters also trekked up into the Adirondacks on occasion). I don't care about which the border should be exactly, but perhaps the dividing line suggested by the New York State's official tourist regions mapping could be adopted.
Juliancolton has noted elsewhere that he does not see that overlap between these WikiProjects would be a problem, but he did not comment that realignment would or would not be a problem either. He and at least one other member here set an example by already signing up to be members of the other WikiProject, so I do not see why "turf" issues should be important. If you want to work on articles across a given border, you can be a member of that wikiproject too. I, for one, do see it as a problem for explaining this and the other WikiProject to possible future members, and also for causing duplication of efforts in banners and ratings and so on. It is a small issue on each article webpage, to have overcrowding from multiple wikiproject banners. It is a small but also numerous issue to determine whether just one or just the other or both of the WikiProjects apply for a given place. If others think there is no problem, then they also should not object to reducing the scope of WP:HVNY to avoid the issue that is perceived by some (i.e. me at least), or they should clarify why they would object, please. doncram (talk) 09:16, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
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FYI, ((Hvportal))
has been nominated for deletion. 70.29.210.155 (talk) 05:18, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
((portal|Hudson Valley))
. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 03:32, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
A while back, I recommended new classes for Project Long Island articles, including Template, Redirect, Image, Category, etcetera. Now, I say WikiProject Hudson Valley banners should bet the same things. ----DanTD (talk) 02:47, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
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I have finished up Timeline of town creation in the Hudson Valley and hope it comes in handy for anyone who wants to expand/cleanup some of the town and county article history sections out there. Mostly I relied on French's Gazetteer of the State of New York but backed it up with the actual state laws that incorporated the individual towns and corrected with the appropriate official source where French was wrong.Camelbinky (talk) 17:22, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
I'm requesting an A-Class review for Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, which has just become a GA. None of the involved projects have a formal A-Class method, so I'm requesting that two editors review the article and support its promotion. I'm reposting this request on the talk pages of all involved projects.
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See new table format lists of Registered Historic Places, with room for a photo of each one, in List of Registered Historic Places in Columbia County, New York, etc. Click on the Google map link to see the exact locations of almost all of the NRHP properties and districts in each one.
Enjoy... doncram (talk) 00:24, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Main page: Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates/Portal:Hudson Valley |
I nominated P:HUDSON for featured portal. The portal affects the whole project, so if anyone wanted to help out at the nomination, that would be cool.
--Gyrobo (talk) 01:14, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
I just noticed that WikiProject Hudson Valley doesn't have project-specific assessment criteria like the New York and Capital District projects do. The current assessment system appears to be very subjective, so I thought I'd make a proposal for something more formal:
I think it would also be helpful if the project allowed more classes, such as template, project, category, and portal. --Gyrobo (talk) 23:13, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
However, in most other projects I've noticed they've limited top-importance to very few articles. In our case, I think it should be reserved for Hudson Valley and Hudson River, with all those other things in high-importance. Daniel Case (talk) 13:32, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
Which counties are in the scope of this project? There are some companies headquartered in Westchester County (Armonk, Harrison) and I would like to see these companies go from WP:NY to a more specific WikiProject, if possible WhisperToMe (talk) 05:13, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
I'm proposing a WLL event October 29 at the Albert Wisner Public Library, a really beautiful facility in Warwick township. I've had an initial contact with the library, and they're considering the unformed proposal. This is both a meetup for Orange County area Wikipedians and a chance to bond with the reliable source provider community. I'm not exactly sure what the program might entail, but I would be willing to teach several seminars on Wikipedia usage and beginning editing. I could also foresee some hands-on editing in the form of a local history (or other subject matter) live collaboration. I'm wondering if we couldn't invite attendees to bring their own devices and see how many different people we can get involved in trying to edit. Not everyone involved would need to be present; we could use dedicated editors to watch specific pages to help prevent utter chaos. Would any members of other Orange or Rockland county Wikipedians would like to join me in this WP:GLAM effort to help connect local libraries with the culture of Wikiprojects? I see no reason why we should limit this effort to one library if we could get others interested. BusterD (talk) 21:51, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
The article Hudson Valley has been nominated for deletion. Please Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hudson Valley for the discussion. Article has been tagged for WP:RESCUE. OpenInfoForAll (talk) 19:08, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
Main page: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Hudson Valley Rail Trail/archive1 |
Just a quick notice: the FAC for Hudson Valley Rail Trail has been open for a little over a month now, and needs additional input. The trail runs through Highland in Ulster County, up to the Hudson River. Any review would be appreciated. --Gyrobo (talk) 22:49, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
The table of Hudson Valley articles by quality and importance now has no articles unrated as to quality or importance. When new articles are added to this project, I would appreciate it if the editor adding the article would also add the appropriate talk page templates with class= and importance= ratings. Editors who create articles can rate their own articles, at least at the stub, start, C and B levels. --DThomsen8 (talk) 23:51, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject New York#Article tagging in relation to subprojects. – TMF (talk) 21:11, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
Hi, does this wikiproject seek to cover, or accept coverage of, non-Hudson Valley locations within counties that do have large portions in Hudson Valley.
For example, Glen Island Park (New Rochelle, New York), in Westchester County, is in Long Island sound. I would like to add places like this to the most specifically relevant geo-based wikiproject and would prefer to add WikiProject Hudson Valley rather than WikiProject New York. doncram (talk) 19:50, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Who wants to take photos of the East Ramapo Central School District buildings, especially the district headquarters and high schools? Due to the battle between the Hasidic Jews and the Black and Hispanic groups (and also those, including other Jews, who ally with the pro-public school side) this district is fairly well known... WhisperToMe (talk) 16:36, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
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Hello,
I came into a slight dispute with User:Castncoot, who added galleries to Hudson Valley (link) and Hudson River (link). I feel Wikipedia is not a gallery and images should merely be supplemental informative resources, and not dominate an article (these galleries currently can fill up my screen). There might be some policy or guideline that agrees with me there, I'm not really sure. While Castncoot was alright with me removing the gallery on the Hudson River article, he remains defensive about those on the Valley article.
I stated to him that the galley of bridges is "barely relevant to the Valley", and that he "might as well add a gallery of Hudson Valley firetrucks or post offices...". He replied that "bridges are a transportation lifeline of the Hudson Valley". My reply restated my relevancy argument and included that the galleries are "highly irregular, unnecessary, and unencyclopedic".
We have Wikimedia Commons to provide such expansive galleries and categories. This is a good example. And I'm not opposed to most galleries for being useful in giving a good representation of an object, a building, or a city. I'm opposed to these galleries because they're just pictures of shops, fireworks, and a library in the biggest cities, barely representative of the valley. And why a gallery on the trans-Hudson bridges? There are hundreds if not thousands of bridges in the Hudson Valley, most not crossing the Hudson, but instead the diverse system of lakes, rivers, and streams that transverse the counties.
I can't easily represent Castncoot's contrary opinions on the matter. Here are his latest content-related arguments:
"You've just said above that roads and highways are a lifeline. Bridges represent an even higher level of a lifeline - they are unique highways which carry those more ordinary roads and highways which you have acknowledged to be lifelines and carry them and their traffic across the prominent Hudson River; if not for those very bridges, each of which is more structurally complex, formidable, and certainly more iconic than those lesser roads and highways, passengers would have a greater difficulty getting to the other side of the Hudson River and the Hudson Valley. At least on the same side of the river, one often has alternate routes to travel."
"And by the way, can you think of another region in the world that is as defined by as many iconic bridges relative to its population as the Hudson Valley? - or alternatively, the ensuing transportational and economic catastrophe if the bridges (especially the Tappan Zee) were to all of a sudden magically diappear?"
I came here to ask others' thoughts on the matter.--ɱ (talk · vbm) 22:07, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
... [T]he use of a gallery section may be appropriate in some Wikipedia articles if a collection of images can illustrate aspects of a subject that cannot be easily or adequately described by text or individual images. The images in the gallery collectively must have encyclopedic value and add to the reader's understanding of the subject. ... Images in a gallery should be carefully selected, avoiding similar or repetitive images, unless a point of contrast or comparison is being made ... However, Wikipedia is not an image repository. A gallery is not a tool to shoehorn images into an article, and a gallery consisting of an indiscriminate collection of images of the article subject should generally either be improved in accordance with the above paragraph or moved to Wikimedia Commons ... One rule of thumb to consider: if, due to its content, such a gallery would only lend itself to a title along the lines of "Gallery" or "Images of [insert article title]", as opposed to a more descriptive title, the gallery should either be revamped or moved to the Commons.
I haven't looked at these galleries yet, but based on my experience and the above I would really have to be sold well. Bridge pics? We have a List of fixed crossings of the Hudson River to which a picture field could (and, I've always felt, probably should) be added.
Frankly, I think this issue will be mooted in the next few years as a video showing all these things could easily be created (My next summer project after Wikimania!) and added to the articles, taking up far less screen space. Once people start getting the hang of how to make appropriate videos for articles, our overillustration problems will become a thing of the past. Daniel Case (talk) 03:41, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
As it is the galleries strike me as indiscriminate collections of images, and the bridge problem could be (again) remedied by adding an image field to the table in that list. Daniel Case (talk) 04:44, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
Hi there,
I'm attempting to let this project's members know of Wikipedia:Move review/Log/2016 June, where a Move Review is taking place. A Requested Move was implemented, moving New York to New York (state), which is now being contested. This should be of relevant interest to this WikiProject. This notice was requested by several editors, and is performed as a courtesy.
Best, ɱ (talk) · vbm · coi) 15:53, 26 June 2016 (UTC)
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New Rochelle problem discussion notification: I've opened a new discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard#Long-running problem with respect to New Rochelle area articles.
This relates to a perhaps overly complicated 4 part proposal i opened on March 26, which was closed on March 27 and archived at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Archive187#Proposal for unban, apology, amnesty for Jvolkblum and related others, and topic ban for Orlady.
I am hoping that WikiProject Hudson Valley may play a role in solving the long-running problem. I think it is a problem that won't go away. I've also provided a courtesy notice to all parties who had more than a one word comment in the previous discussion. doncram (talk) 03:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
Please see the question at Talk:Knickerbocker Building#More than one Knickerbocker Building. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 23:40, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
A merge proposal was made to merge Keith Raniere with NXIVM in November 2017, I have revived the merge proposal. Please see discussion here. Your comments in the discussion would be appreciated since the page is within this WikiProject. -- Waddie96 (talk) 14:42, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Broadway (Manhattan)#Requested_move_20_June_2018. epicgenius (talk) 18:59, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
There is an error in the Westchester list of National Register of Historic Places listings in northern Westchester County, New York. I've tried to fix it, but can't. Item 52, Site of the Old Croton Dam, is located in Yorktown, not Cortlandt. The map coordinates are also wrong, they link to the site of the New Croton Dam.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Register_of_Historic_Places_listings_in_northern_Westchester_County,_New_York — Preceding unsigned comment added by Croton Historian (talk • contribs) 18:11, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
We have often used the location the NPS assigns the listing to as the one on the list here for consistency's sake if nothing else. Occasionally this has led to some confusion and we have departed from the NRIS; perhaps this may be another one of those times.
As for the coordinates, I believe the dam site is actually now flooded by the reservoir? Wouldn't that information be in the original application? Daniel Case (talk) 21:21, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
Please come participate in this discussion of the "generations" of the Hudson River School. Thanks! ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 22:47, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
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Please comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_New_York_(state)#Merging_inactive_WikiProjects. – Muboshgu (talk) 16:57, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
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Greetings, On WP page, I added wikilinks to "Popular pages" (which is now working & runs monthly), and "Quality operations". JoeNMLC (talk) 16:18, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
I created a new article on the artist and painter, Paul Seckel. Any further research would be appreciated! Right cite (talk) 04:17, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable |
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like
John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.
)and turns it into something like
It will work on a variety of links, including those from ((cite web)), ((cite journal)) and ((doi)).
The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.
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