Talk:Union Square, Manhattan

message: Given the sentence from the article "Union Square is also the site of an important subway station; 14th Street-Union Square, a stop on the 4, 5, 6, L, N, Q, R, and W trains", should the wikilink shown here point at 14th Street-Union Square (BMT Broadway Line station) or 14th Street-Union Square (IRT Lexington Avenue Line station).  Thanks for the clarification. Courtland 03:53, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed for wikilink revision 

message: I sincerely doubt the RNC protest was the most notable protest ever to start in Union Square. In any case, such an assertion can't stand without some citation. I altered to make it clear that this was perhaps the most notable recent protest to start there. If anyone has hard figures or a reliable historical perspective, I invite them to add it. --Tcatts 18:03, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  RNC protest 

message: The article lacks knowledge of the rich historical significance of the square.--Gkklein 14:10, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: There are many sculptures within Union Square, perhaps there should be a separate sub-section specifically for the art of Union Square? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.173.210.195 (talk) 04:06, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate section for sculptures of Union Square? 

message: I added a source for the founding date of 1832. I can't find any sources that say that it opened in 1939. As to the architects, I really can't find anything on Olmsted and Vaux having been the architects. Can we get some sources before we start changing things? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 03:45, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And besides that, get a clue about the infobox structure - you can't just put anything you want in it, there are preset parameters. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 04:47, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, was that directed at me? And why did you remove my reference? I'm putting it back.. — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 05:27, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it was directed at User:Jacomo.  As for your ref, yes I seem to have deleted it, but I'm not sure why -- it wasn't intentional on my part. Ed Fitzgerald (unfutz) (talk / cont) 10:10, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creation and architects 

message: This article should briefly mention a thing or two about the birth of hip hop music and culture and the use of union square by many talented legendary acts to project their style and music  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.80.113.143 (talk) 00:08, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, can you give us some examples of people that would fit that? — HelloAnnyong (say whaaat?!) 01:37, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hip hop

message: the article at this writing includes incomplete citations, employs multiple date styles and has various assertions, including entire paragraphs without attributions.  i have attempted to cure some, and have been categorically reversed.--96.232.126.111 (talk) 18:38, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Give me a minute, because I think I misjudged your initial edit, and I'm going to try to figure out how to restore most of it, and also put in the subsequent changes I made -- so hold on. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:47, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I reverted back to your second edit ("typo"), and put in most of the changes I made subsequently.  I removed the linkrot tag, as I do not believe it is pertinent any longer (please see recent discussions on WP:AN about overuse of this tag).  I think and hope, this is a compromise we can agree on.  I'm not sure why I got the impression that your initial edits were not helpful to the article, but I did, and my actions were based on that.  I see now that I was wrong, so I apologize for that. Beyond My Ken (talk) 18:59, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article cleanup

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa (talk) 23:51, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 

message: User:Beyond My Ken disputes that my additions to the chess scene are not "relevant". I would like some further discussion on this issue. I do not think I am giving undue weight to the scene due to the large visibility that the chess scene has in the southwest corner of the square, and the fact that it is well documented. It has in fact, expanded in size in recent years (due to the migration from Washington Square Park, and Beyond My Ken is not responding to my messages on his user talk page. Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 22:27, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussion should take place on the article talk page, not on a user's talk page.  You don't think it's too much weight to go into detail about the people who play chess, their ethnicity, and their motivations for doing so? I do.  You say you want to write an article about them - go ahead, we'll see if it survives notability. BMK (talk) 22:39, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oppression of people of color is a well-documented issue in New York City, and in the United States. This is a case of intersectionality. Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 22:41, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is a case of undue weight.Per WP:BRD, the article stays in the status quo ante while discussion is going on.  What you're doing is edit warring and it can get you blocked, so please stop until there is a consensus in this discussion. BMK (talk) 22:46, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  What exactly is being given undue weight here? There are many street vendors at Union Square. Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 22:50, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  A minor aspect of the park is being given much more coverage that it deserves.  It's as if you decided to write a full section on the skateboarders.  Your POV here as a participant is misleading you into thinking this is important ... it is not.  Now, please stop re-inserting the material.  If you want to float a "compromise", do it here, not in the article. BMK (talk) 23:01, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've tried really hard to edit collaboratively. At first, I was puzzled why you reverted me without explanation. Then, I tried to improve on my existing edit by adding sources. For my third edit, I tried to trim the text as you requested, and make the text tighter but I feel you're not trying to collaborate with me and are just being antagonistic. Yanping Nora Soong (talk) 23:20, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, you want to get in as much as you can about the activity you participate it, and it's still undue.  What was in the article was sufficient, perhaps another sentence your disquisition on the ethnicity and motivations of the chessplayers has no place in the article.BTW, filing a 3RR is not "editing collaboratively, in my view.  This discussion is. BMK (talk) 23:59, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  content dispute over street chess scene 

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message: I plan on expanding the history section of the Union Square article to include some history on labor strikes and nickelodeons which existed in the early 20th century. I want to expand the "social and political activism" section of the article because a bulk of it only mentions events which happened in the 19th century and then pretty much jumps to modern day.
I would include info from:
Monkey Business in Union Square: A Cultural Analysis of the Klein's-Ohrbach's Strikes of 1934-5
Manhattan Nickelodeons: New Data on Audiences and Exhibitors
Piotr Lapinski (talk) 03:32, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding on to the history section 

message: "In the early years of the park a fence surrounded the square's central oval planted with radiating walks lined with trees."
What is that intended to say? How can an oval, or indeed anything, be "planted with radiating walks"? Harfarhs (talk) 17:43, 16 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear sentence