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Hi I recently noticed that you have reverted my edits to the pages West Windsor Township and Plainsboro Township. Please recheck the sources and do not remove information that is aobut our proud townships whose school districts were built upon the standards of Princeton University. I have been a resident of West Windsor for more than a decade and know much about its geography and culture. Please feel free to ask me any questions. Thank you.76.116.118.216 (talk) 05:59, 18 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]


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Demolished buildings and structures in Chicago, Illinois

Thanks for your work on this category; I wasted a ton of time cleaning up after Coffee's rampage, both undeleting categories and reverting category removals. However, I question the need for the category; see Category:Former buildings and structures in Chicago, Illinois. Do you believe that there's a big enough difference between "Demolished buildings" and "Former buildings" that both are needed? Or do you think, as I do, that they're close enough that we don't need both of them? Nyttend (talk) 13:38, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • @Nyttend: Thanks for doing all of that work and for reaching out to me. I can't think of any meaningful difference between a former building and a demolished building, and I see no reason that the two could not be merged. Other than it being demolished, why else would a building be a former building? As to the deletions, the worst part of the whole situation is that User:Coffee truly believed that by wiping out thousands of edits and categories that he was making the encyclopedia better, when in reality almost each and every one of his systematic deletions were making it worse. We do need far better methods to keep sockpuppets away, but the manner in which this incident was dealt with was dead wrong. Coffee kept on referring to the quaint essay WP:DENY, while the relevant policy WP:BAN is rather clear that the correct approach to such a scenario is to evaluate the situation and see what can be kept and what must be deleted. As I had stated when this was going on, if a serial killer / heart surgeon had done a transplant on your child and then been convicted of murder, I might approve of giving the doctor the death penalty but summarily removing the heart from the patient seems somewhat wrong. I think that you're at the tail end of your efforts with this set of deletions, but please let me know if I can help with anything. Alansohn (talk) 16:13, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think the issue is the method of becoming "former", e.g. the Crystal Palace probably wouldn't be put in "demolished" because it burned instead of being taken down intentionally. Meanwhile, I've not done anything on this in a couple of weeks; it was 8 or 9 December when I was going around cleaning up the mess. This is why I supported the WT:CSD proposal to exempt a populated category from CSD#G5, which already doesn't permit the deletion of transcluded templates. Nyttend (talk) 16:22, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Agreed. Same with the World Trade Center. All demolished buildings are former buildings, but all former buildings were not demolished, as they may have been destroyed by fire, earthquake, collapse, terrorist actions or some other process other than their deliberate demolishing. I think it's probably more meaningful to use former buildings as the general container. The majority of former buildings will probably have been demolished, but it might be useful to group buildings that no longer exist because they were destroyed in some unplanned manner / act of God based on the manner in which they were destroyed. In this case, the Chicago buildings were demolished and replaced by other structures. Alansohn (talk) 16:34, 22 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nyttend: It always fills me with such holiday cheer to know I'm being talked about behind my back. You're truly a man of impeccable character. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:22, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
User:Coffee, it's always nice to know I have a wikistalker. If you have any constructive suggestions for better ways to undo the thousands upon thousands of your deletions, please let us both know. Best wishes for 2014! Alansohn (talk) 18:31, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Don't flatter yourself... You pinged me in your above comments. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 18:45, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. As I said, you were cutting off your nose to spite our face, disrupting tons of pages and wasting a ridiculous amount of time for tons of people who care more about building an encyclopedia than spiting miscreants. When non-admins do this kind of thing, we give them a block for general disruption. You gave me solid reason to doubt that you are here to build an encyclopedia. Nyttend (talk) 18:49, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
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Nyttend: Your over inflated sense of self importance has done you well. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 19:55, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
First warning. Remember the {{uw-npa1}} and further warnings. Nyttend (talk) 21:13, 23 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nyttend: Well that's just hypocritical, and ridiculously illogical (oh and WP:INVOLVED). But do go on... I'm shaking in my boots. — Coffee // have a cup // beans // 00:15, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
User:Coffee: For someone who removed explicit requests from your talk page to end your mass deletion rampage, your invasive taunting here seems all the more inappropriate. It seems that rather than taking the wikibreak you so desperately need (and threatened), you're here trying to pick a fight with two different editors. Take a step back and try to imagine how you could be more productive, much less belligerent, far less destructive and a lot less caffeinated in the new year. You will benefit, and so will all of Wikipedia, if you can find a way to make these much-needed changes. You can make a positive start on this path by resisting the urge to respond here with another reply and just absorbing the message. Best wishes for your long wikibreak and productive 2014. Alansohn (talk) 22:36, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Renaming categories

Greetings, would you happen to know how to rename categories, such as Category:Mount Laurel Township, New Jersey to Category:Mount Laurel, New Jersey and also Category:Mount Holly Township, New Jersey to Category:Mount Holly, New Jersey, without the word Townships. I was bold and moved Mount Laurel Township to just Mount Laurel, since it is commonly known by that name, similar to Mount Holly, Cherry Hill, Medford, North Bergen, Weehawken, and several other townships. I realize there is a debate going on about this. Thanks and happy holidays to you. Tinton5 (talk) 21:55, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See WP:CFR for details about speedy renaming, where matching the title of a renamed article is an available option. For every Mount Holly, Cherry Hill, Medford, North Bergen, Weehawken without the "township" in the title I could point to a Washington Township (pick one), Chester Township, Old Bridge Township or Woodbridge Township where it should be included. Wikipedia allows one to be bold, but I'd suggest that all of the ramifications of the overall issue be addressed first, especially as the overwhelming majority of these articles have had stable names since they were first created and the rename does little to improve the article while creating additional issues of renaming associated categories, template entries, etc. There is an ongoing discussion at WT:NJ regarding the potential renaming of township articles and I encourage your participation and input so that this can be settled on a more global basis, rather than one article at a time. Alansohn (talk) 22:25, 24 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the input. I will post there. Tinton5 (talk) 01:48, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Ben Wallace

Ben Wallace pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of drunken driving and possessing a firearm while under the influence of alcohol and received one year probation and no jail time. The sources in the article say this. The category label is not a good one, but shouldn't some type of category be applied?Hoops gza (talk) 21:27, 27 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Wallace's circumstances make it a more borderline case. I will review when I have a chance. Alansohn (talk) 20:14, 29 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Flag icons on municipality pages

Just wondering, are you implementing flag icons on all NJ municipality pages for the US, as well as NJ flags? I noticed all Bergen County towns have them. Also for all of the town's home pages, are we adding {{URL|example.com|optional display text}} formatting? Tinton5 (talk) 23:23, 30 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

  • Someone made the change to add the flag icons on articles for Gloucester County municipalities and I liked the look, so I've been spreading it around as edit other municipal articles. The URL template also helps with longer URLs, but the formatting seems neater. None of these are required anywhere, and I wouldn't edit any articles solely for that purpose, but that's just me. Alansohn (talk) 02:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Galloway Township, NJ

I am writing you for the 500th time to request that you stop your unnecessary edits to my additions to the Galloway Township, NJ article page that are based on whzt you feel is relevant and what is not. We spoke months ago and agreed to the following consensus:

1. That the population trends would be permitted to remain in the introduction paragraph as per your wishes. 2. That the fact how Galloway Township is the largest municipality in the State of New Jersey would be worded the way you wanted it. 3. That the Deputy Mayor would be added and REMAIN in the infobox. 4. That the Township Manager's date of service would REMAIN next to the current manager's name in the infobox.

You agreed to this consensus and I have it in writing. However, you have turned around and deleted the final two points mentioned above.

The Deputy Mayor is an extremely relevant fact to place in the infobox. Why? Because in the particular case of Galloway Township, the deputy mayor performs numerous functions. He presides in the absence of the mayor at council meetings. The deputy mayor is charged with heading several committees and subcommittees. The deputy mayor in Galloway Township also signs all financial documents with the mayor. Your claim that the deputy mayor "have no governmental function whatsoever" is therefore grossly incorrect.

I greatly appreciate your inputs to the article. However, I do not appreciate how you constantly change others solely on the fact that you do not agree or feel that it is not relevant to the article. You also have numerous sources whose links to articles no longer exist or can be accessed. I have attempted to delete links that are broken or no longer valid, however you always reinsert them. There are numerous pieces of content that I feel are irrelevant that you have added throughout the article. However, I have not edited or deleted them. I request that you recognize the fact that all content and information, regardless of whether you agree with or feel it is relevant to the article or not, is permitted to be added and remain in the article.

Please respond to any questions or concerns in regards to this post by posting on the article's talk page.

Djbutala93 (talk) 03:41, 6 January 2014 (UTC)djbutala93[reply]

Re: Placing municipality articles in Category:Historic American Buildings Survey in New Jersey

See my talk page for a response. It's okay to delete this. Martindelaware (talk) 23:08, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

RfC concerning the article name for Broadway

Because you were involved in a previous discussion on the subject, or related to the subject, please see RfC: What is the best name for the article about the street called "Broadway" which originates in Manhattan? BMK, Grouchy Realist (talk) 02:30, 7 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]


Categories

We are having the same problem with shifting categories into areas that do not make sense in California too. It is not just your state that is being rearranged counter to the system which makes sense. I have also left that editor a note on his/her user page. Cheers! Ellin Beltz (talk) 18:17, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  • Sometimes, it seems to me, there are editors who have a fetish for categorization and recategorization, taking articles that they know little or nothing about and adding, updating and removing categories that too often make no sense. when complaints are raised by locals more familiar with the issue, the response is that we fail to see the bigger picture. The problem is that there is no bigger picture and the failure to reach out to local editors and collaborate creates giant problems. Know that you are not alone and let me know if I can help with any specific issue. Alansohn (talk) 20:31, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks I sure will! Ellin Beltz (talk) 20:37, 8 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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