User talk:Mantanmoreland

/Archive1: January 2006 - February 2006 (mainly a heated dialogue on short-selling that I'm tired of looking at).

Whoopee! My archiving worked. How nice. --Mantanmoreland 15:00, 15 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The Nation

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Hope you're enjoying Romania. I actually have relatives there but have never been.

Anyway, on the talk page of The Nation magazine there is a renewed discussion on this left vs. liberal issue to which you contributed a while back, in case you have a sec to weigh in.--Mantanmoreland 19:08, 16 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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Thanks, I put in my 2 cents. I'm barely on Wikipedia right now and may not be for another month or more, so I greatly appreciate it when people "ping" me on things like this. - Jmabel | Talk 06:42, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! I've clarified my vote to indicate I prefer left-liberal, by the way.--Mantanmoreland 14:02, 17 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Neighborhood boundaries

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't have a good source on that. I live in Queens, so most of what I do on that topic is from my own knowledge, but I've found that finding neighborhood info is somewhat difficult for Staten Island, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. (Manhattan is Manhattan, so of course it's adequately covered; Queens is much more defined by its neighborhoods than the other boroughs, so such information as neighborhood boundaries is more important for residents of that borough and thus is more easily found.) In any case, as I'm sure you know, "boundaries" are more often than not vague and ambiguous and are hardly ever "official." Having noted the Fordham article's lack of sources, as well as various maps I've seen online (e.g., at New York League of Conservative Voters, NYC Dept of City Planning [1][2]), it looks as if maybe someone looked at the placement of the labels "Fordham" and "Bedford Park" and judged 196th Street to be the boundary from its median position. Since you have knowledge of the area, I'd just suggest that you change the article, asserting your experience of the area, and explaining your reasoning to anyone who objects. — Larry V (talk) 02:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Norwood-205th Street

Well, you must have seen the cream of the crop of the NYC subway articles, since (in my opinion) most of them are very inadequate; most station articles were copied off of nycsubway.org. I'm working on them, though. I do agree that a few of the articles (New York City Subway, Times Square-42nd Street, to name two) are quite well done.

About Norwood-205th Street: One of the things that vexes me immensely is the MTA's lack of true "official" nomenclature. For instance, one would think that it would use the same station name whenever it refers to a particular station, but this is far from the truth. The Map says "Norwood–205 St," but many route info signs in Template:NYCS D stations say "To 205 St all times," and unless they've changed it very recently, the signage in the station itself declares it to be "205 Street Station." I've found this to be situation for most terminal stations that the MTA has prefixed neighborhood names for. For example:

Harlem-148th Street (IRT Lenox Avenue Line) is signed "148th Street–Lenox Terminal"
Wakefield-241st Street (IRT White Plains Road Line) is simply "241st Street"
Jamaica-179th Street (IND Queens Boulevard Line) is just "179th Street" (even on the relatively new ADA-compliant elevators)
Ozone Park-Lefferts Boulevard (IND Fulton Street Line) is signed just "Lefferts Boulevard"
Inwood-207th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line) is just "207th Street"
Bay Ridge-95th Street (BMT Fourth Avenue Line) is simply "95th Street"
Eastchester-Dyre Avenue (IRT Dyre Avenue Line) is "Dyre Avenue"
Long Island City-Court Square (IND Crosstown Line) is nothing more than "Court Square"
Crown Heights-Utica Avenue (IRT Eastern Parkway Line) is signed "Utica Avenue"

Fewer are actually signed with the neighborhood names (e.g., Main Street-Flushing (IRT Flushing Line), Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue, Ditmars Boulevard-Astoria (BMT Astoria Line), Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue (IND Rockaway Line), Rockaway Park-Beach 116th Street (IND Rockaway Line), Jamaica Center-Parsons/Archer (Archer Avenue Line)).

For article titles I prefer to go with the most commonly used variant of the name (in this case, "Norwood–205th Street"), but in the infobox and within the article itself, I lean towards using the name signed in the station itself ("205th Street"). In cases where the signage and the common name are equivalent ... well, there aren't any problems there, obviously.

— Larry V (talk) 21:26, 22 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Anti-Semitic people

Hello, thank you for voting there is a discussion at the +cats Category talk:Anti-Semitic people talk page. Cordially SirIsaacBrock 20:32, 23 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your kind suggestion that I change my vote. The vote to keep is prevailing thus far 34-35 to 24, so my vote wouldn't matter much. I think that the potential for abuse of these categories as User:Kasreyn pointed out are reason enough to leave my vote as it is. I do think that there are people that should be in this category, however. Hitler is one of these obviously. I think that Ku Klux Klansmen should be put into it. I just think that the jury is still out on Luther. I am opposed to anti-Semitism. I like the Jewish religion and tradition, and perhaps I should be a little more concerned about anti-semitic writing over the years. If it comes up for a vote again in the future I will simply abstain perhaps, deferring to my Wikipeers who have seen fit to retain it. Thank you for your clear thinking and advice. All the best, --Drboisclair 01:56, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This was my response to your comment on my talk page: It was a difficult personal struggle for me as a Lutheran and a Luther scholar. It is always difficult when our "heroes" are found to have feet of clay and black eyes. I reacted subjectively and not with the objectivity of the scholastic. --Drboisclair 14:14, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]