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Lead map image (New Jersey)

In the New Jersey article, I would like to change the lead map image to New Jersey in United States (zoom).svg. Can you please open up a discussion on the New Jersey talk page to establish consensus please? Thank you. --192.107.120.90 (talk) 13:53, 13 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for your good-faith suggestion! Unfortunately, your proposed picture blocks out some of the U.S. Midwestern states and would therefore violate the standard format for U.S. state lead infobox maps. Best, Castncoot (talk) 01:13, 14 September 2018 (UTC)

A page you started (List of journalists in New York City) has been reviewed!

Thanks for creating List of journalists in New York City, Castncoot!

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Please remember that these lists are supposed to contain only those people notable enough for WP articles. I have not removed the others, because many of those listed there but without articles should probably notable enough for articles to be written. The most helpful thing you could do at this point is to write articles for them; pattern them after the similar ones that have already been written,

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Discussion on Asian Americans

As someone who edited Asian Americans in the past two weeks, I invite you to participate in a discussion about some recent edits. Specifically, there is a question about whether to include South Asian ethnicities in the discussion about Asian Americans. --Ishu (talk) 04:45, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

Looks like the problem has been addressed. Best, Castncoot (talk) 06:35, 27 September 2018 (UTC)

WP:COATRACK

Castncoot, your creation of WP:COATRACK list articles and making WP:COATRACKs of existing lists is indeed problematic. Please see WP:WTAF. If you continue edit-warring to include non-articles in lists, you will probably end up reported to administrators and possibly end up topic-banned from lists. Softlavender (talk) 06:10, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Softlavender, your understanding of this issue is not correct. Did you happen to see the note left above by the reviewer of a new article I created? The standard is that those listed with refs who could warrant their own page qualify to remain in the notable people section, rather than people who already have Wikipages created. But your thinking defies logic, because you're implying that until a Wikipage is created, one is not notable - but a Wikipage cannot be created in the first place unless one is notable. Do you understand? Castncoot (talk) 06:14, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you

		The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
		For continuous edits in many fields; a very fair editor. IWI (chat) 22:04, 14 November 2018 (UTC)

Thank you very much. Best, Castncoot (talk) 00:01, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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Borough maps

Good afternoon. I do now recall talking about this; I had completely forgotten about it. I really cannot see why the Earth map is needed for a New York borough. They’re essentially areas within the city and probably don’t even need a pushpin map at all, if someone wanted to know where New York was, they could just go to that article. IWI (chat) 13:52, 26 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi there- on the flip side, some readers do think it's informative and helpful, and it's easier just to let them have it at their fingertips rather than force them to rummage. Certainly doesn't cause any harm. All of the boroughs (except Staten Island, which then just tags along for consistency's sake) maintain global prominence anyway, receiving large numbers of foreign immigrants; each of those four may as well have its own city scale of an article, if not already so. Best, Castncoot (talk) 01:31, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Yes but they are areas within the city. I’m British, if I were going to move to New York, well, I would move to New York, not even thinking about which borough; I group them all into just New York. I think your argument is invalid. IWI (chat) 05:09, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

(Discussion continues below referencing Brooklyn as a specific example.) Castncoot (talk) 06:11, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I'm fine with the article as it is now. That was collateral damage of a mass revert of a large number of edits by the previous editor, who was introducing errors in the settlement_type parameter of {{infobox settlement}} in articles on every US capital city. (I tried to exclude any edits from the reversion that did not introduce that issue, but apparently a few were included.) Unfortunately, I can't control whether the tool applies the minor edit flag or not. General Ization ^Talk 01:44, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Isn’t it a small world; that editor was me. IWI (chat) 04:58, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

I really think General Ization should be more careful with rollback; I would never blindly rollback many edits without checking each one. If you can’t control the tool correctly, don’t use it. IWI (chat) 05:04, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Los Angeles

Due to the length of time that it said Los Angeles, the version it should stay as until consensus is that. IWI (chat) 17:04, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

I think it has been at "Los Angeles, California" for a much longer time period. Castncoot (talk) 04:12, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

Yea it has but it has been Los Angeles since October, which they consider to be stable. IWI (chat) 05:24, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

New Jersey

If you can’t see that three old looking confusing image maps should be removed, then I don’t even know what to say. There’s no way the community would agree to that. IWI (chat) 08:08, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

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Maplink / KML HOW TO ?

Greetings, I saw your fine work on New York City where you added an interactive map. I'm hoping you could give me a clue as to how to do this, or should I check in with @Epicgenius:? Is there some doc on this? I'm guessing a missing link is the id parameter in {{Maplink|frame=yes|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|zoom=8|frame-lat=40.782|frame-long=-73.965|type=shape-inverse|id=Q60|title=New York City}}, which somehow links to Template:Attached_KML/New_York_City ? If I do put together a procedure I'd be glad to create some doc for it, obviously not here. Thanks. --Cornellier (talk) 18:01, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Hi there! The ID parameter is represented by the Wikidata item number, with the link to that page being in the left hand column of your geographical article. Best, Castncoot (talk) 18:05, 16 February 2019 (UTC)

Thanks so much. That was indeed the missing piece of the puzzle. --Cornellier (talk) 19:14, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

LIst of New York City journalists listed at Redirects for discussion

An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect LIst of New York City journalists. Since you had some involvement with the LIst of New York City journalists redirect, you might want to participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. UnitedStatesian (talk) 13:32, 21 February 2019 (UTC)

Why?

You can’t even discuss this issue with me to come to some sort of agreement, you’re a respectable editor, don’t do this. Removing my comment twice is plain insulting. IWI (chat) 01:15, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

IWI, this should be something self-evident to you, that Wikipedia works based on consensus, and the consensus with regard to this issue of the nomenclature of New York City is that, by and large, people want the disambiguation word "City" added to the term. You have a noticeable tendency to truncate wording just because you feel that the meaning should be obvious when truncated, but that's not how an encyclopedia works, because you cannot simply make this assumption every time. My suggestion seriously would be to take a short Wikibreak from NY-related (and maybe US-related) topics and come back refreshed with an open mind. Castncoot (talk) 02:19, 27 February 2019 (UTC)

Not sure if you read my ping on my talk page, but apologies for the way I acted; I was out of line and behaved inappropriately. I hope you can understand. IWI (chat) 01:54, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

Apology accepted! Castncoot (talk) 14:36, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

pls read

Not sure why your going out of your way to make articles non accessible but can you read over WP:GALLERY... WP:UNDUE....MOS:ACCIM...WP:SANDWICH. Not sure how many more people need to point this out to you.-Moxy (talk) 13:45, 10 March 2019 (UTC)

What you don't understand is that these articles have evolved out of consensus. Are you saying that a bevy of other editors cannot make a decision in unison? Castncoot (talk) 18:42, 10 March 2019 (UTC)