Talk:Prospect Park (Brooklyn)

message: This is a park, not a city.  I say we move the article to Prospect Park (Brooklyn).  What's the thought on this?--Pharos 02:11, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change 

message: I'd like to create a category for Prospect Park. Comments welcome before I actually go about doing so.  — Anna Kucsma 14:05, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I know it's only been a few hours, but I'm going to go ahead and start work on the category anyway. It will be at :Category:Prospect Park, Brooklyn.  — Anna Kucsma 17:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: The photos at left were taken in Prospect Park. I'm thinking of trying to find a place for one an/or both in the article — my preference is for the one of the snow — but I'm not sure if or where it fits.  — Anna Kucsma 21:06, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: I will be regarded as churlish in most quarters, I suppose, but the October 3rd contributions to this article by Special:Contributions/64.131.146.91 is a lot of fulsome, original research. Churlish of me, because it was the first contribution of an anonymous editor, who probably felt pretty good about writing it, and while I find myself personally sympathetic to this writer's point of view, I find that much of the contribution floats around, an aesthetic appreciation unfounded on any references, the received wisdom that most of us in the Park Slope neighborhood absorb about Prospect Park without thinking too much about it.  But does all of this worshipful prose to the Artistic Vision of Olmsted and Vaux play for readers in Aukland, New Zealand, or for that matter, Hershey Pennsylvania? These people like their parks too, for much the same reasons we like our Prospect Park. Except we have the names 'Olmsted' and 'Vaux' to beat people over the heads with, cultural snobbishness. Rather than our own opinions, we should be quoting Alan Tate's Great City Parks  (Taylor & Francis 2004) or Nature by Design: People, Natural Process, and Ecological Restoration by Eric Higgs.  More use could be made of the late M. M. Graff, who, in her Tree Trails in Prospect Park wrote about the flora in a terse, economical, but useful way. These published writers articulate matters about Prospect Park that is more concrete than our cherished feelings about the place.
The article is unbalanced: much about the Ravine, nearly nothing about the equally significant Meadow. Ohmigosh! in a thirty year span, 1930 to 1960, the Park lost (in addition to the Music Island) the Dairy Farmhouse (1935), the Thatched Hut (1937), the Concert Grove House (1949) The Greenhouses (1955) and the Miniature Yatch Club (1956). Cross reference these data point to Parks Department reporting housed in Brooklyn Public Library's Brooklyn Collection, and one has a concrete depiction of the park's economic slump that vague, unreferenced remarks to the "park's decay" cannot match in force or precision. 
Missing significant topics, containing original research,  lacking supporting references, this just doesn't read like a B class article, which has the characteristic of being substantially complete, if not written from an entrirely neutral point of view or having all of its references in place. This article is about a mid-range Start. If some have the urge to switch it back to B, do make the case here, first. For my part, I'll try to address some of these concerns, without bloating out the article too much. Thanks. Gosgood (talk) 23:44, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why I think this article is a start class 

message: I would like to write an article on Prospect Park's Parade Ground. Also, I would like to mention it in the Prospect Park article where currently no mention of it is found.
It is an official part of the park and I am not sure why it isn't mentioned anywhere in the Prospect Park article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_(Brooklyn)
Here is the page for it on Prospect Park's official site: http://www.prospectpark.org/parade_ground
It is an important historically significant site in Brooklyn and I think deserves mention.
While researching this I discovered that the Prospect Park article says "public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden." In keeping with no mention of the Parade Ground, no mention of the southern border of the park is to be found.
According to the list of Brooklyn Neighborhoods article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Brooklyn_neighborhoods), the neighborhood to the south of the parade grounds is "Prospect Park South" which would sound like it makes a lot of sense to be the neighborhood at the southern border. However, on the Prospect Park South article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Park_South,_Brooklyn) it says the northern border of the neighborhood is Church Ave., exactly one block south of the bottom of the park.
I have found mention that "Caton Park" is the "micro-neighborhood" immediately south of the park and north of prospect park south. (http://www.cb14brooklyn.com/our-neighborhood/caton-park/). There doesn't seem to be any mention of Caton Park on wikipedia.
In addition to the Brooklyn Neighborhoods article's designation of the neighborhood as "Prospect Park South", Google Maps also makes this distinction. I have also seen all of the neighborhoods in the area referred to as "Victorian Flatbush".
You can see the confusion. Any recommendations for what should be done? Sssnole (talk) 06:35, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parade Ground and southern border confusion 

message: Evidently, there's also a Prospect Park in Redlands, California, because I've been finding some images in the commons gallery that belong there, but were incorrectly added to this one. Everybody should move those images where they belong. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  04:58, 26 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prospect Park in Redlands, California 

message: Was going to add this panorama of the lake, but I see there are already a few in the article and it's a GA. Just leaving it here in case other editors think it's worth including. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 04:19, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lake picture 

message: The redirect Rick’s Place has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Edward-Woodrow (talk) 21:16, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Rick’s Place]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: A couple observations: would recommend at least one [more] photo of fauna. There are several mentions of birds, but the only photo is a blurry photo of a hawk with a rat. Also, no photo of the Vale of Cashmere. As it happens, most of the Commons Quality Images of Prospect Park include birds (no idea how that happened) and we have a Vale of Cashmere category. If I were to recommend two in particular, and acknowledging that I have a COI in this selection, it would be these two:
Green heron in PP (14296).jpg|Green heron
Celandine and white squirrel in Prospect Park (01490).jpg|Vale of Cashmere (it's not the focal point of the Vale, but a pretty path there)
Anyway, putting these here for others to consider given its GA status and since it already includes many images. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 01:16, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos