User talk:Epicgenius/Archive/2024/Feb

Your GA nomination of James New York – NoMad

The article James New York – NoMad you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:James New York – NoMad for comments about the article, and Talk:James New York – NoMad/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 Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 03:42, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Andrew Carnegie Mansion

Hi there, I'm pleased to inform you that I've begun reviewing the article Andrew Carnegie Mansion you nominated for GA-status according to the criteria. This process may take up to 7 days. Feel free to contact me with any questions or comments you might have during this period. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 05:04, 2 February 2024 (UTC)

Cite New York 1960

Hi Epicgenius, I see you replaced a citation at "History of modern period domes" back in 2020 with some kind of external reference. First, how did you do that?? Second, why is that preferable? AmateurEditor (talk) 19:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi @AmateurEditor, for your first question, I'm not sure if you meant something else, but I replaced the citation by clicking the "Edit" tab and manually editing it.

For your second question, the code {{Cite New York 1960}} is a condensed form of the full version of the citation. This makes it easier to use across multiple articles, as the book is cited in more than a hundred pages. Additionally, the templated version of the citation contains a link to a version of the book hosted on the Internet Archive. Anyone can borrow the entire book from the Internet Archive for up to two weeks at a time. By contrast, readers can only preview a limited number of pages on Google Books. It isn't necessary to use the template, but I felt it would be useful to link to a version of the book that could be borrowed in its entirety, rather than to the Google Books preview. – Epicgenius (talk) 19:27, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Andrew Carnegie Mansion

The article Andrew Carnegie Mansion you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Andrew Carnegie Mansion for comments about the article, and Talk:Andrew Carnegie Mansion/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 Bruxton -- Bruxton (talk) 20:24, 3 February 2024 (UTC)

Wall Street Plaza

I created a draft for Wall Street Plaza a while ago. Thought you may be interested. Best, Thriley (talk) 03:10, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Requesting urgent assist for George Town's FA review

Hey there Epicgenius. I'm seeking urgent assist on the FA nomination of George Town, Penang. Participation has been rather minimal & in spite of the improvement I've been making, one of the mods is about to archive the nomination. Do let me know should you be keen to help. Thanks a bunch! hundenvonPG (talk) 14:28, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

@HundenvonPenang, thanks for letting me know. I can take a look. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:56, 4 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks Epicgenius. Looking forward hundenvonPG (talk) 00:51, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Thu Feb 8 NYC Hacking Night + Feb 21 WikiWednesday

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WikiCup scoring question

Curious, do you think my review here is sufficiently substantive to count? I did read through the whole article, just couldn't find many issues -- but would understand if it isn't sufficient. Elli (talk | contribs) 20:28, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Good question @Elli, because I am honestly unsure myself. If I went strictly by the text of Wikipedia:WikiCup/Scoring, it would not count because it's a pretty short review (and, in fact, I have rejected reviews of this length before). However, if you did review the article against every criterion and could not find anything wrong other than these three issues, I can take it in good faith that you gave a comprehensive review, and you may be allowed to receive points for this review.

I'm leaning toward allowing you to claim points for this one, as it does seem that your comments weren't just superficial, but I'm going to ping the other judges, @Frostly and @Cwmhiraeth, to see what they think. – Epicgenius (talk) 20:33, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Apollo Theater

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1 and 2 UN Plaza

Hi Epicgenius I am interested in writing an article on both the 1, and 2 UN Plaza buildings, since I thought it wasn't written up yet — only to see that it is there, but under the Millenium Hotel's entry: Millennium Hilton New York One UN Plaza. Is this the proper form to title this article? Rather than "One Un Plaza?" The hotel is therefore being "advertised" as a byproduct of the article, which is not according to Wiki policies. In other words, "One Un Plaza" was built in 1976, and years later the hotel entered into the picture. I believe the title should be: One Un Plaza. Then I only need to write up 2 UN Plaza! What do you think? Cheers, Eli Bigeez (talk) 23:17, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

@Bigeez, good question. There are a few things going on here:

• Neither 1 UN Plaza nor 2 UN Plaza have articles, though both are notable. They may either have two separate articles or one combined article, as both of these towers are closely related. (I was actually thinking of writing about this earlier, incidentally, but never got around to it.)
• The UN Plaza Hotel does have its own article despite not having its own building.
• Despite its name, the hotel occupies the ground floor and top 13 stories of both towers, rather than just 1 UN Plaza. The rooms in 2 UN Plaza were added at a later date, but that's only because 2 UN Plaza was built more recently.
• The UN Plaza Hotel's article contains some details about 1 and 2 UN Plaza. It may be prudent to move these details to the 1/2 UN Plaza page(s) once the article or articles are created.

My take is that, since the hotel occupies space in both towers, I do not think we should move that page to One UN Plaza. However, it would be a good idea to make an article about the towers - either individual articles for each tower, or one article for both towers. Personally I was thinking about writing one article for both towers, since they are closely related. – Epicgenius (talk) 23:55, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi Epicgenius, thank you for your time. Great, I would enjoy the task for either a separate "One"/"Two" U.N. Plaza articles, or a combo, probably the latter. What do you recommend? I was also wondering why in wiki there wasn't one. The UN Secretariat article briefly mentioned it for the plaza environs, and I was a little confused about the hotel owning it, which I now know to be the case

So yes, it should be created. In reading Eric Nash's book on the NYC Skyscrapers, he does a great job describing it, and really sees the difference to the Secretariat.

I'll need to research it. One question: is there any other article other than Millennium Hilton New York One UN Plaza?

Thank you again,

Cheers, Eli Bigeez (talk) 17:09, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Bigeez, sounds good. As for the UN Plaza, the hotel is the only article that exists right now. – Epicgenius (talk) 19:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

OK thank you, Epicgenius, I'll work on it. Cheers, Eli Bigeez (talk) 21:24, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

@Epicgenius, Hope all is well. I've been occupied of late in improving Louis Comfort Tiffany's article, which I was bent on doing. It needed it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Comfort_Tiffany). How does it look now? Any input would be appreciated. Will tackle 1/2 UN Plaza article ASAP. Cheers, Eli Bigeez (talk) 15:34, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

@Bigeez, thanks for letting me know. Although I'm busy at the moment, I can take a look in a bit. Epicgenius (talk) 17:24, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Apollo Theater

The article Apollo Theater you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Apollo Theater for comments about the article, and Talk:Apollo Theater/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 Reconrabbit -- Reconrabbit (talk) 17:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)

DYK for Kips Bay Towers

On 10 February 2024, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Kips Bay Towers, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that after the original developer of the Kips Bay Towers sold off the buildings in 1962, his son bought them back a decade later? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Kips Bay Towers. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Kips Bay Towers), 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.

—Kusma (talk) 00:02, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Citigroup Center

Congratulations, Epicgenius! The article you nominated, Citigroup Center, 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, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:12, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Draft:Village Cigars

Hello again! I started a draft last year for Village Cigars. It was just announced that the business closed this month. Thriley (talk) 22:11, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

@Thriley Thanks for the heads up. I actually heard about it a few days ago but didn't really think much of it. It might have something to do with the impending sale of the building and the adjacent Hess triangle. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:16, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

Very probable. Do you think the building warrants its own article or would it be best covered in the Hess Triangle article? Thriley (talk) 22:19, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

I just added the info about the sale to the Hess Triangle page. The closure of Village Cigars could probably be mentioned there as well, unless there's enough coverage about the building in reliable sources. – Epicgenius (talk) 22:21, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

WikiCup 2024 February newsletter

The 2024 WikiCup is off to a flying start, with 135 participants. This is the largest number of participants we have seen since 2017.

Our current leader is newcomer Generalissima (submissions), who has one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher) and 10 GAs and 12 DYKs mostly on New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures. Here are some more noteworthy scorers:

• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), with one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, and two DYKs;
• Vami_IV (submissions), with one FA on Doom (2016 video game), one GA on Boundary Fire (2017), and 11 reviews;
• MaranoFan (submissions), with one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and two DYKs;
• Skyshifter (submissions), with one FA on OneShot and one DYK;
• Sammi Brie (submissions), with five GAs and five DYKs on television and radio stations;
• voorts (submissions) and Elli (submissions), both with one FA and one DYK each.

As a reminder, competitors may submit work for the first round until 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February, and the second round starts 1 March. Remember that only the top 64 scoring competitors will make it through to the second round; currently, competitors need at least 15 points to progress. If you are concerned that your nomination will not receive the necessary reviews, and you hope to get it promoted before the end of the round, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews. However, please remember to continue to offer reviews at GAN, FAC and all the other pages that require them to prevent any backlogs which could otherwise be caused by the Cup. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup and the judges (Cwmhiraeth (talk · contribs), Epicgenius (talk · contribs), and Frostly (talk · contribs)) are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 17:58, 11 February 2024 (UTC)

TFA

story · music · places

Thank you today for Williamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, "about a skyscraper in New York City that, until a decade ago, was the tallest in Brooklyn and the only real skyscraper in its neighborhood. The exterior has extensive amounts of sculpture, an enormous clock tower, and a dome (leading some to compare it to a phallus), while the interior has an extremely elaborate banking room. Developed as an office building, the tower later housed dozens of dentists' offices before being converted to residences." - I remember a singer's 80th birthday today ;) -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 08:43, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @Gerda, I appreciate it. – Epicgenius (talk) 14:23, 5 February 2024 (UTC)

Today I am happy about a singer on the Main page (at least for the first hours), after TFA the same day last year. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 15:25, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks to Seiji Ozawa. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:47, 12 February 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Carnegie Hall

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FA process question

Hi! I posed this question to Gog the Mild first, but since you are one of the judges for the WikiCup, I'm pretty sure you're more than familiar enough with the things I have questions about. I started Free and Candid Disquisitions last month with an eye towards putting it up as a FAC sometime this monthish. It passed something of an easy GAR, which leaves me with a couple questions: since I'm new to FAC, should I try my hand first at reviewing a couple FACs (or FA-minded peer reviews) before nominating my own work? Additionally, should I request a peer review before putting Free and Candid Disquisitions up as a FAC? Best, ~ Pbritti (talk) 17:54, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Pbritti. Here's what I would advise:

• Regarding since I'm new to FAC, should I try my hand first at reviewing a couple FACs (or FA-minded peer reviews) before nominating my own work? - yes, that would be a good idea. It's good to keep in mind that not all FACs may be up to FAC standard, so if you do decide to go this route, you could check to see if the nomination is by a prolific FAC nominator and review their work accordingly. Another tactic I use is to look at similar FAs. For instance, since this is an article on a book, I would look at some of these WikiProject Books FAs. It is advisable to look to more recent FAs for inspiration (so to speak), since older FAs might not be up to standards.
• Regarding Additionally, should I request a peer review before putting Free and Candid Disquisitions up as a FAC? - that is also a good idea. PR and/or a third-party copyedit would be advisable.

– Epicgenius (talk) 18:04, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

Excellent! I'll be following your advice across the board. Thank you! ~ Pbritti (talk) 18:22, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

You will find this amusing

I just found out about this page that shows the most-thanked Wikipedians. You are ranked 7th with 8,450 thanks. I am responsible for 5,453 of those, or 64.5%, lol. Keep up the great work. Kew Gardens 613 (talk) 04:44, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

@Kew Gardens 613, I appreciate it. That link is pretty interesting - when I first saw it, I was ranked 20th or something. I figured you might've been responsible for a lot of these thanks, so... thanks for the thanks. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:20, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of The El Dorado

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Your GA nomination of The El Dorado

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A barnstar for you!

		The Completionist Barnstar
		Thanks for helping to improve 2020–2022 catalytic converter theft ring, you added some information and some citations I probably wouldn't have found. It feels damn good to see it all finished, so thank you for being part of it. CommissarDoggoTalk? 21:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks @CommissarDoggo, I appreciate it. You did almost all of the hard work, but I'm glad to have helped. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:53, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

March 2024 GAN backlog drive

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Request

Could you start a review on Haile Selassie I article and start a GA discussion, i think it would benefit if you review the article under GA criteria, and input your decision if it meets or passes the GA criteria. CtasACT (talk) 21:04, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the message, but unfortunately I am unable to do so at this time, mainly due to time constraints and the fact that this is outside of my usual subject area. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:14, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

No worries! CtasACT (talk) 21:51, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Promotion of Felix M. Warburg House

Congratulations, Epicgenius! The article you nominated, Felix M. Warburg House, 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, FrB.TG (talk) via FACBot (talk) 00:06, 25 February 2024 (UTC)

Your GA nomination of Otto H. Kahn House

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Your GA nomination of James A. Burden House

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Your GA nomination of Otto H. Kahn House

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Your GA nomination of Henry Clay Frick House

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Your GA nomination of James A. Burden House

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Your GA nomination of Henry Clay Frick House

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WikiCup 2024 March newsletter

The first round of the 2024 WikiCup ended at 23:59 (UTC) on 27 February. Everyone with at least 30 points moved on to Round 2, the highest number of points required to advance to the second round since 2014. Due to a six-way tie for the 64th-place spot, 67 contestants have qualified for Round 2.

The following scorers in Round 1 all scored more than 300 points:

• Generalissima (submissions), who has 916 points mostly from one FA on John Littlejohn (preacher), 15 GAs, and 16 DYKs on a variety of topics including New Zealand coinage and Inuit figures, in addition to seven reviews
• Vami_IV (submissions), who has 790 points from two FAs on Felix M. Warburg House and Doom (2016 video game), two GAs, one DYK, and 11 reviews
• AirshipJungleman29 (submissions), who has 580 points from one FA on Hö'elün, two GAs on Mongolia-related articles, two DYKs, and five reviews
• Sammi Brie (submissions), who has 420 points mostly from nine GAs and seven DYKs on television and radio stations
• MaranoFan (submissions), who has 351 points from one FA on Holidays (Meghan Trainor song), a nine-article FT on 30 (album), and three DYKs
• Skyshifter (submissions), who has 345 points from one FA on OneShot, one DYK and two reviews

In this newsletter, the judges would like to pay a special tribute to Vami_IV (submissions), who unfortunately passed away this February. At the time of his death, he was the second-highest-scoring competitor. Outside the WikiCup, he had eight other featured articles, five A-class articles, eight other good articles, and two Four Awards. Vami also wrote an essay on completionism, a philosophy in which he deeply believed. If you can, please join us in honoring his memory by improving one of the articles on his to-do list.

Remember that any content promoted after 27 February but before the start of Round 2 can be claimed in Round 2. Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points. If you are concerned that your nomination—whether it is at good article candidates, a featured process, or anywhere else—will not receive the necessary reviews, please list it on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. If you want to help out with the WikiCup, feel free to review one of the nominations listed on Wikipedia:WikiCup/Reviews Needed. Questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove your name from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:40, 28 February 2024 (UTC)