Talk:Combat Zone, Boston

message: Not sure how to link it, but the Pilgrim was the last name for the Olympia, for which there is a Wikipedia article. The link is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%27s_Olympia_Theatre_%28Boston%29, if someone could link that to "the Pilgrim Theater" reference in this "Combat Zone Boston" article. EyePhoenix (talk) 21:56, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, thanks! I took it one step further and set up The Pilgrim Theater to redirect to Gordon's Olympia Theatre (Boston), so that anyone searching Wikipedia for information about the Pilgrim will now land at the Olympia article. — FeRD_NYC (talk) 02:56, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Pilgrim

message: Does anyone know if the newspaper articles mentioned in the first paragraph are available online? They might be available through GenealogyBank.com but I don't want to pay to read them. --Rosekelleher (talk) 16:48, 12 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Note, Jean Cole was a notable woman reporter who covered the Boston Strangler murders (and came up with that name for him) for the Record American. So the claim that she popularized the name "Combat Zone" is perfectly plausible, it just needs a citation. --Rosekelleher (talk) 17:27, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Found citation in a book. The book says it was the Boston Daily Record, not the Boston Record-American, and mentions Jean Cole and two other reporters, Al Salie and Frank Thompson. I'm assuming the others aren't mentioned because Jean Cole was the most famous of the three, and/or did most of the writing. --Rosekelleher (talk) 14:43, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Care must be taken when saying someone wrote for the Daily Record newspaper “in the 1960s.” That’s because the morning Daily Record only existed in that decade for a year and 9 months, merging with the evening Boston American, Hearst’s other Boston paper, on October 2 1961 to form the “all-day” Record-American. 96.237.184.133 (talk) 21:54, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles by Jean Cole in the Record American 

message: The current wording makes it sound like the whole Combat Zone was renamed Liberty Tree Park. According to this article, however, Liberty Tree Park was a small park built within the Combat Zone, near the site of the original Liberty Tree. I'm going to rephrase that passage, if there are no objections, which I guess there won't be, since I seem to be talking to myself. --Rosekelleher (talk) 22:17, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: *Okay, I see (according to Giorlandino's paper) they did try to rename the whole zone, and building the little park was part of that. --Rosekelleher (talk) 02:44, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liberty Tree Park 

message: I'd like to nominate this article for Good Article status at some point. In preparation for that, I'm going to comment out (not delete) a few statements that don't have inline citations, or for which the citations are weak.
It would be great to have some help/feedback. I hope I haven't driven other editors away with my obsessive editing.  --Rosekelleher (talk) 16:23, 30 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Article status 

message: I've gotten to the point where I can't read this article anymore, and any editing I do will probably just make it worse. My sense is that it's still a mess, but I've lost all objectivity. The edit history is a perfect illustration of how NOT to write a Wikipedia article. Two lessons learned: (1) Please, people, don't write an article from off the top of your head and leave it there without inline citations. And (2) if someone else does that, don't treat their prose and overall structure as sacrosanct, timidly creeping around adding citations here and there, a snippet of text here and there, but afraid to delete anything or make any major changes. You'll end up with an awkwardly worded patchwork of facts, and a bloated reference list. --Rosekelleher (talk) 12:47, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fresh eyes needed 

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replies: text: Reviewed and reverted. Not cyberbot's fault, the original link had been flagged with Template:Dead link, but it is in fact alive and well, and has no need for archive-linking. Removed both the archive link and the dead-link flag. -- FeRD_NYC (talk) 18:15, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
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message: Just happened to look at the traffic stats and see a huge spike. Anyone know why? Just curious. Rosekelleher (talk) 20:07, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
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replies: text: For reasons that are entirely unclear to me, the reference that CyberBot II rescued here is commented out in the article text, so it isn't visible anyway. However, the archive link is valid as corrected, so the bot did the right thing... -- FeRD_NYC (talk) 18:19, 28 June 2016 (UTC)
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