Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads/New York/Archive 1

message: I disagree with the capitalization of "New York State route" here. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  22:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Understood, however it is proper English. I know you would prefer to capitalize every word in the title like a song name or book title but whereas that is proper for titles, that would be improper for this entry, just like the lists and categories. --Censorwolf 16:05, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A New York State Route, however, is part of a specific highway system, which is a specific classification. Therefore, capitalization is needed. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  04:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: Don't we already have ? --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  22:00, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes this is a proposal to standardize the name in accordance with the project. --Censorwolf 17:42, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Then take it to WP:SFD or move the stub template but don't have 2 stub templates for NY State Routes. It's just an excuse for the SFD people to delete both. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  04:42, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubs

message: oh my god, this thing is back to haunt me again, and this time right here in my home state. I propose cutbacks, similar to those that happened to , but obviously not the same, since these roads are different --Chris 01:06, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: New York State Highway 17's is a bit long, I will say that. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  01:13, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. There is no need for every single other NY highway it intersects. On the other hand, you got some like 132 which should definetely list all of them (US 6; Old Yorktown Road merge (this is debatable); Taconic Pkwy; and US202/NY35). I also noticed that my removal of cities/towns might have fucked over 17 a bit, since they are listing exit #s, but those should probably be switched to towns anyway. I'll admit that NY 17 is an extreme (is it the longest?) though. Very few (if any) other routes with signed numbers have exit numbers. (unless they are Interstates, which 17 almost is) --Chris 01:54, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  the frigging california routebox 

message: I noticed some WP stuff on some parkways I'm working on. Does this mean that this project is covering anything with a reference route #? I have no problem with that, but the project page should make that clear. --Chris 18:32, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  parkways 

message: I have been trying to make my own shields for the articles I've been creating, using Illustrator (which I admit I'm not that good at yet). Firefox will only let me save the blank as a .png, which seems to ruin all the info (like the layers) I would need to edit properly as described at the Commons, even if I resave it as an .svg once it's downloaded. Anyone got any ideas on this? Daniel Case 06:24, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See who made the other NY png's and contact them thru their talk pages. --Censorwolf 16:08, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

text: User:WhosAsking] made some good SVG shield templates: :Image:NY Route Shield Template (2 Digits).svg and :Image:NY Route Shield Template (3 Digits).svg --Chris 05:12, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems editing shields 

message: For the information of all: Revert wars have broken out at the California and New York State Highway/route WikiProjects. Mass moves of pages and removal of routeboxes have occurred. --Rschen7754 (talk - contribs)  23:37, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Correction: mass reversions to too-big infoboxes have occured. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 00:01, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit wars

message: Many articles covered by this WikiProject lack photographs. As part of a subcategorization of the requested photos category, there is now a category for NY articles needing photos - to use it, just add  to the article's talk page. I have only added a few articles to the category so far, but it would be an easy way to make an extensive list NY-related articles lacking photos. I hope you find it useful!TheGrappler 06:30, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can do both ... it's not a problem. Quite a few of mine are used in other articles (see the McKinley status in NY208. Daniel Case 04:12, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in New York]]

message: An SVG version of "US 20A.png" is now available (US 20A.svg). If you see a 20A shield pointing to "US 20A.png", please correct it to point to "US 20A.svg". --TMF T - C 01:59, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: US 20A Shields

message: Okay, what's the idea of deleting most of the info about former sections and would-be future sections of New York State Route 25A? I had to go through older versions to bring them back. --DanTD 13:57, 30 June 2006 (EST)
:From the way it looks, the editor who made a change on the page a while ago was using a tabbed Firefox with the Google Toolbar, which often cuts off articles unexpectedly. This happened a while ago on New York State Route 17 and it looks like that's what happened on NY 25A. I wouldn't fault the editor, I'd fault Google for causing Firefox to glitch in that situation. --TMF T - C 18:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NY 25A Former Sections & Bypasses 

message: I admit, I've glanced around at the other route WikiProjects lately and one thing that nearly all of them have that we don't (at least, not visibly) is a best-practice article. While I can't think of any off the top of my head (maybe NY 15?), there's probably a few somewhere out there.
We should probably compile a (preferably short) list of best-practice articles to post on the main page of the project to serve as models for the other articles. --TMF T - C 16:54, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Best-Practice Articles

message: I hope that people don't mind that I am including only the first and last junctions with a route which is closely parallel for long stretches to a given route. It just looked strange to me to have so many I-88 junctions in the NY 7 infobox. In addition to the first and last, I would probably also include a parallel junction if it occurs in a major city. What do others think about this? --Polaron | Talk 00:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember that my first answer to this a while ago was to list them all. But I agree wholeheartedly, the continual repetition of I-88 on NY 7 needed to be taken care of and your method of using the first and last junctions seems like the best way of doing it. Maybe we should set a guideline that if a parallel route has 1-3 junctions with the article route, then all junctions should be listed; however, for 4 and over, only the first and last junctions should be listed. --TMF T - C 01:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That works for me. --Polaron | Talk 01:10, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Junctions with parallel route in infobox 

message: While doing the major intersections infobox, I have often found myself in a mental debate when it comes to the New York Thruway. Some have the thruway listed as "N.Y.S.T." while the NY 8 article lists it as "New York Thruway." I hope you can settle this matter. --JB82 22:40, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been consistent across the articles I've updated/written, using "NYST" for the infobox and "N.Y.S.T." in the Major Intersections junction table. Of course, now that I look at NY 8, I used "NYST" in the junction table, so I'll fix that to maintain consistency. --TMF T - C 02:21, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's also a new Thruway template for the junction table. Check out the project page. --TMF T - C 21:32, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

text: If you feel the urge to change the 50 (?) articles that refer to the Thruway to use "Thruway", go ahead. Once all of the links are changed over (if they are), I'll change the NYSRInt/TH junction table template. Until that point, I still support my comments above. --TMF T - C 16:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "N.Y.S.T." or "New York Thruway"? 

message: I noticed the TOC has been removed from the main project page.  I found it quite useful.  Any chance we could get it back?  =)  Powers 21:22, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it because I felt personally that it was unnecessary. However, I'll gladly restore it. --TMF T - C 21:30, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table of Contents 

message: Shields for every New York state route, past and present, have been created and uploaded. --TMF T - C 05:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Shields