User talk:DanTD/Archive. January 2013

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Wikipedia Day Celebration and Mini-Conference in NYC Saturday Feb 23

You are invited to celebrate Wikipedia Day and the 12th anniversary (!) of the founding of the site at Wikipedia Day NYC on Saturday February 23, 2013 at New York University; sign up for Wikipedia Day NYC here, or at bit.ly/wikidaynyu. Newcomers are very welcome! Bring your friends and colleagues!

We especially encourage folks to add your 5-minute lightning talks to our roster, and otherwise join in the "open space" experience!--Pharos (talk) 01:44, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

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Tour of Consumer Reports' laboratories

On Tuesday January 15 at 3pm Wikipedians are invited to join a tour of laboratories at Consumer Reports in Yonkers. If you would like to attend please RSVP at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/January 2013. If you have questions feel free to ask on that page or contact me on my talk page or by my office phone at 914.378.2684. Thank you. Blue Rasberry (talk) 20:03, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (File:Super-Mixer GR Compilation CD Cover.jpg)

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The Center Line: U.S. Roads WikiProject Newsletter, Winter 2013


Volume 6, Issue 1 • Winter 2013 • About the Newsletter
Departments Assessment roundup Portal selected articles and pictures	Features Wikidata Q&A USRD Cup returns Project looks ahead to new year	State and national updates Project news Task force reports for CA, FL, and PA
Archives • Newsroom • Full Issue • Shortcut: WP:USRD/NEWS

—EdwardsBot (talk) 19:50, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Named passenger trains at given stations

Thanks for the note. Yes, I've made another list of named passenger trains at Central Railroad of New Jersey Terminal, Wikipedia's name for the Central Railroad of New Jersey's Communipaw Terminal. Interesting project you have with the U.S. roads. Dogru144 (talk) 22:32, 20 January 2013 (UTC) The above terminal is in Jersey City, New Jersey directly south of Hoboken on the Hudson River harbor.Dogru144 (talk) 22:33, 20 January 2013 (UTC)

WP:USRDCUP

Hello! As a member of WP:USRD, you may be interested to know that we are doing the USRD Cup contest again this year! Signups are at the above page and the contest will begin February 1. --Rs chen 7754 10:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Welcome Centers

Thank you for helping me out with the welcome centers article. I would appreciate any help you could give me. Jay (talk) 06:02, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

US 441 in Florida Edit and Advice for Future Edits

Hi Dan,

I was wondering what you meant when you said "Just because there's no FL 441 doesn't mean US 441 doesn't follow SR 439 and precede SR 442" when you undid my edit on the U.S. Route 441 in Florida page. I wasn't too sure what you meant when you said that.

Also, slightly off topic here, but I'm actually considering removing the Florida State Route navigator on the bottom there because even though it's true that US 441 is State Road 7 in South Florida, it has other hidden designations elsewhere in the State, like when it's in North Florida, it's SR 25A and SR 47.

I'm very new here, and I'm still figuring out the ins and outs of Wikipedia, so any advice on future edits is also welcome. Thanks again. BryanWeather (talk) 17:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

A lot of US Route and Interstate Route infoboxes have two sets of navigator boxes when needed, even though there's often more than one "hidden" state road included. We tend to use two sets of them when a hidden state road is entirely dominated by the US Roads, like Florida State Road 57 which is dominated by US 19 north of Capps, or Florida State Road 63, which is dominated by US 27 north of Tallahassee. What you did was remove the state routes that correctly come before and after US 441 in Florida, which was why I reverted your edits. I do understand why you want to remove Florida State Road 7 from the infobox. It's a separate route with it's own article. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 18:17, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

If I can jump in with a quick reply to BryanWeather here... The browser at the bottom of the infoboxes on US highway articles runs in numerical order, regardless of type, for a state. To use an example from Michigan, M-1 is the lowest numbered highway in the state, and US 2 is next followed by M-3. So the browser on U.S. Route 2 in Michigan has M-1 as the previous and M-3 as the next. If there are duplicate numbers, like Michigan has for US 24 and M-24, then we list them in order by priority: Interstates first, US Highways second, state highways third, as described at WP:USRD/STDS#Browsing. So for Florida, US 441 would be preceded by next-highest number, SR 439, and succeeded by the next-lowest number, SR 442. Imzadi 1979 → 18:37, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

I knew there had to be an official policy on this. Thanks for clearing it up, assuming I couldn't make it clear to BryanWeather. ---------User:DanTD (talk) 20:01, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Well that makes a little more sense then. I think I understand it now. Thanks again to both of you. BryanWeather (talk) 15:22, 29 January 2013 (UTC)