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Trinity Church

Jleon thank for you instruction, I think it is better for me to seek some tutorial on online for fixing time stamp. Below is a photo of Trinity Church that the time stamp covers a lamp pole as well. [[1]]

Remark: I just learned to use the clone tool in Photoshop, check on the trinity page and see if my work ok!

Time Stamp

Thank again for your help to remove the time stamp of the GE building last time. I got quite alot of pictures have the same problem that hesitate my intention to upload them. Would you please teach me how to use the clone stampe tool in photoshop to replace overlapped distraction. I just got back from NYC this week, its urban morphology and cultural dynamics are really impressively, yet academic geography doesn't even has a foothold in this magnificent city. Geographer 17:43, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)

DYK

Did you know has been updated

and a fact from the article Skyscraper Museum, which you recently created, has been featured in that section on the Main Page. If you have another interesting fact to submit, then please suggest it at the section's talk page.

New York City

You've really done most of the heavy lifting. Feel free to move my music section into "Arts" and edit it, it's not really 100% up to quality but it's not really my field. Kaisershatner 20:09, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

New York City

Two words: be bold. I have done a lot of editing on New York City before, but specifically the subway. Frankly, the organisation of the New York City page is awful, and it should never have been allowed to spawn to 62k. Páll 06:12, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Oh, and one other thing. Articles with 300px images: MTR (featured), Johannesburg (featured), and South Africa (featured). How's that?

Cooper-Hewitt

My page on the Cooper-Hewitt predates yours by three months, and also uses the correct name of the museum, according to its website. Can you figure out how to merge the content/redirect and also fix the link in the New York City article. Bwahahahaha... Kaisershatner 22:22, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Black Death

Thanks for your comments. I agree the point is interesting, and perhaps useful in a social consequences section. But social points are difficult to document. The anon who wrote the original paragraph didn't provide a source. If I can find the source that I got my memory from (see my original comment), I'll put a paragraph in. In the meantime, feel free to look for similar references. Comments welcome. WBardwin 01:02, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Re your changes to the L.A. page

I concur that the sentence about mugging was probably an exaggeration, but I am putting back in the other sentence you took out. It sounds like you're not a L.A. resident. If you actually read the L.A. Times every day, you would be familiar with the enormous variety of random crimes and car-related crimes that occur in the City of Los Angeles on a daily basis. There have been two fatal random shootings on the Harbor Freeway in the past three weeks, as well as random thrill killings on the streets of Pacoima and Harbor City during that same period. All these crimes occurred in broad daylight.

If you want an even more comprehensive list of the variety of murders, assaults, and robberies that occur in L.A. every day, look at the Newsroom Web page on the LAPD Web site:[2]

And don't forget to look at the press release archives for past months, too.

Also, if you run a LexisNexis search through past L.A. Times articles you'll notice that the crime rate was actually much higher in 2002.

--Coolcaesar 09:19, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

NYC

Hi.

You ask:

Hi, what was your intention of breaking apart the intro just to add the heading "overview"? I think its pretty clear that for most large city articles the intro serves as the overview. I've also never heard of what you're calling the "convential position" of having those separate, and I think the article looks much worse now. --Jleon 18:21, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Firstly let me congratulate you on your speedy response. I've actually yet to see the results of my edit (apart from the pre-save preview) as all Wikipedia will give me is Sorry- we have a problem... The wikimedia web server didn't return any response to your request.

However the intention was not about breaking up anything, but rather about making sure that the contents were shown in a rational place in the article. When I first looked at the article, viewing full screen on a 17" monitor with medium sized font, I couldn't even tell that it had a contents list, and I therefore assumed it was a fairly short and lightweight article. Obviously I was sufficiently motivated to scroll down and find that wasn't true, but other readers may not. The contents list performs an important 'selling' task in giving the reader a quick view of how comprehensive the article is, but only if readers don't have to scroll to see it.

Or to put it another way, here is what the Wikipedia:Manual of Style has to say about the lead section:

The lead section is the section before the first headline. It is shown above the table of contents (for pages with more than three headlines). The appropriate lead length depends on the length of the article, but should be no longer than three paragraphs in any case.

(my emphasis). The lead section before my change had four relatively long paragraphs. Please feel free to change what I have done, but do please consider the need for the contents list to be immediately visible. -- Chris j wood 18:48, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I've managed to display the article now, and I see what you mean about the whitespace mismatches. Obviously someone had carefully aligned the contents and the info box, and my change kicked them out of kilter. I've tried again; if you still don't like feel free to revert. Will copy this discussion to Talk:New York City -- Chris j wood 19:22, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

GE Building

Response to: "Hey, I like the photo you added for the GE Building, but the time stamp needs to be taken out using Photoshop. If you'd like me to, I can easily handle it. Just let me know. --Jleon 15:47, 15 May 2005 (UTC)"

Hi Jleon! I would like you to remove the time stamp for me THX! --Geographer 00:07, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

Size limit

I do not oppose a long (61k) article on the USA (as long as it is <64k ) but I oppose double standards. See talk:Germany. Andries 19:52, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

African Burial Ground

Hey, thanks for creating the article. I know very little about the subject, to tell the truth, but just enough to know that there should be an article on it and it should be mentioned in the New York City article. I will try to do some research though, and add to your start. --Sophitus 17:51, May 25, 2005 (UTC)

World cities - Tokyo photo

You mean you don't recognize the bridge? It is Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace. It is THE symbol of Tokyo as much as the Eiffel Tower is to Paris, Buckingham Palace is to London. The old Tokyo photo is not a good picture either. All cities have urban sprawl. Nothing unique about that. Photojpn.org 18:43, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Louisville on the United States page

Louisville was removed from the list of 20 largest cities in the U.S. on the page United States because it was not one of the 20 largest cities in 2000 (see the official list from the United States Census Bureau). That list lists the 20 largest cities as of the 2000 census. Louisville and Jefferson County were merged into a single government in 2003—in 2000, the population of the city of Louisville was the number now shown on the United States page. Mateo SA | talk 17:57, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Houston- Fastest Growing

I have removed the quotes that were restored. I do not know the source for the quotes because they were already there before I started editing the Houston, Texas article. UH Collegian 17:44, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I also don't like the fact that you and your colleages keep on removing the picture of Houston, Texas in the United States article. It seems like the materials on that page are very exclusive and guarded from "non-regular" Wikipedians from adding in anything. UH Collegian 17:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Interested in an L.A.-area Wiki meetup?

It appears as though L.A. has never had a Wiki meetup. Would you be interested in attending such an event? If so, checkout User:Eric Shalov/Wikimeetup.

- Eric 28 June 2005 23:57 (UTC)

U.S. city names

I noticed that you supported having major U.S. cities just be on [[city name]] articles on the requested move for NYC a few months ago, I proposed that rule on Wikipedia_talk:Naming_conventions_(city_names)#New_proposal. Please come add your two cents! Dralwik 1 July 2005 21:03 (UTC)

New York City illustratons

I see that, in providing a consistent pixel width for the images worthy of Thoreau, you have grouped them like stamps in a pane. Since you allow that you are a student of urban planning, I can only surmise that you are perhaps not yet entirely finished? In sizing images, it is the nature of the essential interest within the illustration that suggests its finished size. Surely you must have some well-designed illustrated books that might guide you. --Wetman 4 July 2005 23:01 (UTC)

Revert on U.S. article

What the hell is your problem? Do you own the article? Do you control the content of what is and what is not to put? Who says you can control of what and what not to put? Wikipedia is for anyone to contribute and you are preventing that. You need to get a life, whoever you are. What the hell do you mean referring me as a sock puppet? Define that for me. I see you are a graduate student but you sure don't act like one. Grow up, you don't own or control anything on Wikipedia. If you like to respond, please do it here on your talk page. That picture stays and stop reverting my edits. I wasn't vandalising "your" page so you had no reason to keep on reverting and calling me names such as "sock puppet". Whatever that is. 129.7.156.63 18:43, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

-This issue has been discussed at length on the United States talk page, to which you have not participated. There are many good reasons not to have the picture of Houston on the article: 1) Houston may be the fourth largest city, but only the tenth largest metro area, while the top three cities are also the top three metro areas, 2) The top three are each considered to be true global cities and each has been very important culturally to the U.S.- Houston does not match these qualities under any sense of the terms, and 3) in the past, as soon as someone puts a fourth pic onto that section it opens the floodgates for others who want to see their own hometown on the article. A "sock puppet" is either a screen name or anonymous user that another, regular user uses to mask what they are doing. No one ever tried to put a picture of Houston on the article until User:UH Collegian became an active wikipedian and he is the only one who has ever argued for its placement on the talk page. Therefore, I am somewhat suspect that you may indeed be a sock puppet for him- but of course, I could be wrong.--Jleon 18:51, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

So I see you made an accusation about me being a "houstonian" and reverted again. I am not from Houston by the way, but actually in Galveston, Texas. How about you get a life and revert other user's vandalism. I was not trying to vandalise "your" page because I wanted to put in a different picture. Again, you do not own anything on here. To my knowledge, it is the 8th largest "metro", not 10th. Don't act like you know everything as I am also an architect student, but undergraduate. That doesn't mean you know more than I do. Also, I remember seeing a picture of Houston back then on this page. I am not a "sock puppet" for anyone, whatever you call it. I've been around here before and even edited the U.S. page without having it reverted. 129.7.156.63 19:03, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

--If it was just me that felt this way I would let you put it on there, but just look at the talk page and you will see that there is a far reaching consensus regarding the pictures. Please explain to me your rationale (aside from your personal opinion of Houston) behind having the Houston pic there instead of leaving it with the neat, orderly, and common sense way of having that section. --Jleon 19:11, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Okay, I read the discussion that you asked me to. So you started the quest/demand for removal and most of the posts on there were from you. I also read some of your other posts regarding other topic matters and found that, in my opinion, you think you "own" the article and you seem like a very uptight person. Also, explain your "neat" and "common sense" above. What is my personal opinion of Houston and how would you know? I would never live in Houston!!! I have lived in Houston but moved out of Houston. I don't plan on ever living in Houston (the city) ever again. Just like I would never consider to live or buy a house in New York City (the city you awefully love so dearly), Chicago (ghetto), or Los Angeles (super ghetto). I have been to all these 3 cities before as well. Of course I do like your New York City, don't get me wrong. But I would never want to live in it. I dont like Houston as much as you think I do. I want to put the picture on there because it is the fourth largest city. Houston is important as well, even though you dont think it is from your post on the U.S. talk page. They have the Texas Medical Center, the world renowned medical center of the world, dont you deny that. They have NASA and many other things. Again, I would never live in Houston again, but I dont deny that it is a nice city to visit, to work, to conduct business, etc... Have you been to Houston? Why don't you visit Houston one day, it is not as negative as you think. I used to hate Houston with a passion as well, but then I grew up and became more mature and looked at things differently. I urge you to change your views on other cities besides new york city. 129.7.156.63 20:51, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

--Yeah, Its been real nice chatting with you, whoever you are (by the way, I'm quite surprised that an architecture student like yourself would call Chicago a "ghetto" as it is perhaps the most architecturally rich city in the entire country). --Jleon 12:42, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Houston, Texas

I have responded to your comment on the Houston, Texas talk page. UH Collegian 18:24, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

I could not help but notice my username with a blue link above this section. What was that all about? It seems like you have a dislike for me for whatever reason(s) — can you tell me what they are? I remember we had a talk session a while ago on my talk page (it is still there in archive). I was never rude to you in anyway, but from that point on, you have been giving me a negative attitude and attacking me every way possible. Still, I have nothing against you at all and think you have done a great job for the New York City article. All I am trying to do for the Houston article is bring it up to featured article status and hope that one day it will be a featured article. I would appreciate your reponse. Thanks! UH Collegian 18:57, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Seems like you have no justification for attacking me and saying negative things since you can't answer a simple question I asked you. Therefore, stop finding things to attack me with on the Houston talk page. UH Collegian 23:22, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

What was your simple question? I do not have a dislike for you, nor do I dislike Houston. I simply dislike some of your edits, and some of your behavior on the talk page. --Jleon 12:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Image:City Hall 2.jpg

Hey. If you took this great picture of New York City Hall, please license it accordingly. Right now it is at risk of being deleted. Thanks. --Howrealisreal 16:57, 6 September 2005 (UTC)

Image:Midtown NYC.jpg has been listed for deletion

An image or media file you uploaded, Image:Midtown NYC.jpg, has been listed at Wikipedia:Images and media for deletion. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you.

--Bash 06:26, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

Your message

Remember to always sign all of your posts on talk pages. Typing four tildes after your comment ( ~~~~ ) will insert a signature showing your username and a date/time stamp, which is very helpful.
You need to give the image name so that I can look it up and answer your question. --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 17:23, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks; I found the deleted image-page; all that was there when I deleted it was: "Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC (May, 2004)"[3]. Where did you find all the details that you cited? --Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 22:18, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

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