Talk:Park Lane

message: "Park Lane owes much of its fame to the fact that it is the second most valuable property in the London edition of Monopoly." Much of its fame? Really? I would think that Park Lane had already acquired most of its fame long before Monopoly™ even existed. Uncited, in any case. - Jmabel | Talk 02:35, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monopoly 

message: Since you're here Blofeld, why not help get this to good article status and sort out the remaining "notable residents" list, add proper sources, and integrate them into the prose. Often (eg: as with Grosvenor House) the building has kind of equal notability to its most famous resident. Anyway.... 
===Past===
*No. 41: Fred Astaire, Adele Astaire, Brother-sister actor/dancing act leased a flat here, along with their mother, Ann Astaire when playing the West End production, 'Stop Flirting,' in 1923.
*No. 60: Robert B. Sherman songwriter of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins worked and resided in a flat here from 2002 until his death in 2012.
*No. 99: Moses Montefiore, philanthropist - has a blue plaque image at :File:Montefiore blue plaque.jpg
*No. 100, Dudley House: Joseph Robinson, mining magnate
*No. 140: Keith Clifford Hall, contact lens pioneer
*Aldford House: Dame Anna Neagle, actress
*Londonderry House: Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry, cabinet minister and very wealthy Irish aristocrat
*Somerset House (No. 40): Warren Hastings and the 11th and 12th Dukes of Somerset
*Hyde Park Residence  (No. 55): Chika Sylva-Olejeme, peace crusader, founder International Peace Institute
*Fraudster Sidney Stanley occupied an apartment there during the 1940s.
===Present===
*Shirley Porter, Tesco heiress and Tory politician, set up home on Curzon Square in 2006 after 12 years of self-imposed exile in Israel
*No. 55 and 60: Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of Fulham F.C., former owner of Harrods
Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:40, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable residents (moved from article) 

message: *Shirley Porter, Tesco heiress and Tory politician, set up home on Curzon Square in 2006 after 12 years of self-imposed exile in Israel
*No. 55 and 60: Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of Fulham F.C., former owner of Harrods
Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 20:40, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Present

message: In the second paragraph of the lead, it says that "gentrification decreased", but was Park Lane becoming middle class until then? Surely not. Alakzi (talk) 10:04, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Aaah, Confucius he say editor making first draft of new lead make mistake and howler lot to need copyedit. Say, Blofeld, how do you feel about the article generally now? I could add bits and bobs of trivia (DYK that apparently Barbara Castle took three hours to travel up Park Lane, to which Baron Davies of Oldham quipped some people might have trouble walking the road in that distance, presumably after a liquid lunch? ) but I don't think any of it's relevant. IMHO we just need to give this a good shave and a haircut copyedit, wait for the RM to finish, and we'll be good for a GAN. What do you think? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:32, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  ... what? Do I need to apologise for raising an issue? Alakzi (talk) 11:38, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, it's just my banter that gets me through slogging through articles. Chill. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:12, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Bit tired today, I'll try to have a look at it later on.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:39, 3 July 2015 (UTC)

text:   It usually works better not to respond to feedback with highbrow snark. Alakzi (talk) 12:52, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Seems to be a pattern today. But it's not snark there, either. I think if you do serious article work, say 100+ edits on an article and pull in 20+ sources, you can seem a bit frazzled at times. Just human nature and the difficulties of text communication, I think. Anyway, have a look through the article and if you spot any mistakes (and there's bound to be some), dive in. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:27, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I prefer to leave a note about any errors I find when I'm not familiar with the topic. I thought you were annoyed with me, but it seems not. Alakzi (talk) 14:18, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, not at all! The first sentence of my initial response really means something like "Oh yes, good point. I've just rewritten the lead so there will be mistakes. Fixed." The rest is for Dr. Blofeld. And your infobox work was very much appreciated. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:23, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, thanks for clarifying. Alakzi (talk) 15:29, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gentrification 

message: Just a reminder to all that good articles should prefer information collected together as prose in paragraphs, rather than lists. See MOS:EMBED for further information. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 11:20, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Embedded lists 

message: ,  There seems to be an attack of socks on this article - any ideas on how to proceed (other than the "sledgehammer with nut" approach of semi-protecting?) Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:45, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Is that the same person (using different IPs) who was editing in a similar manner on the Regent Street and Bond Street articles? Some changes might be okay but when they're done in a swathe of big chunks like that, it's very difficult to pick out the good from the not so good. On one of the other articles, didn't it just re-start as soon as the protection was lifted? If the IP won't discuss I'm not sure what else to suggest. SagaciousPhil - Chat 13:15, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it, a set of Hutchison 3G IPs (ranges 92.40.0.0/16 and 188.28.0.0/16), no edit summaries, some good, some factually incorrect, some to taste. I did get something approaching a conversation on Bond Street's talk, then they ignored the conversation and reverted about ten minutes after protection expired. I told him to go and copyedit Liverpool Street station which still needs a lot of work to get to GA, but that fell on deaf ears. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:22, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Socks 

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message: Has anyone got a really good (ie: mainstream broadsheet-quality news) source for the cycle lane? If not, I don't think we should include it per WP:NOTNEWS and balance. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:45, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I originally reverted the addition  because the existing source didn't mention any controversy. The original editor reinstated it with a source, though the edit was improperly formatted. I stand by any revert based on lack of explanation (see User:Willondon#unsourced, unexplained), but I thought the source was reasonable enough that it could stand, so I added it again myself, properly formatted. I really don't have any skin in this game, so I'm happy to stand by and see how things develop. Willondon (talk) 13:49, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Onlondon is described as "", so I would consider it reliable for basic facts, such as the fact the cycle lane exists and what date it was installed. However, I can't find anything beyond that (for example, this BBC source mentions it exists in a photo caption and that's it) so I'm not sure of its relevance compared to the centuries of history documented elsewhere in the article. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 14:00, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I felt that the two sources combined indicated that it was noteworthy, though I do tend to side with the sentiment that Wikipedia is not news. Willondon (talk) 14:04, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cycle lanes