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the Roosevelt Hotel had a Teddy Bear Cave? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, The Roosevelt Hotel (Manhattan)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page

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— Maile (talk) 00:03, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Epicgenius/Archive/2022/Dec. Your input is requested at WikiProject Amusement Parks, as there is a discussion about the reliability of some sources which can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Amusement Parks#Reliable source discussion. Thank you!

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Harobouri ^{T • C (he/him)} 16:44, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

On 4 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hotel McAlpin, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that several murals from New York City's Hotel McAlpin were reinstalled in the subway after being found in a dumpster? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hotel McAlpin. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hotel McAlpin), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:03, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi Epicgenius. I recently posted an edit request to Talk:Figs_(company)#Lawsuit_and_Spruce_Point. I saw your name as a participant in the Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Participants, so I am hoping you will have some interest in Figs (company), which is a California-based company. Kindly have a look at my edit request, and implement it if you think that is the appropriate action. Much appreciated, Todd at Figs (talk) 18:29, 6 December 2022 (UTC)

Your article for 59th Street–Columbus Circle station appears to be listed at GAN since July. I'm currently listing a FAC for James Madison and thought to offer to do your GAN for Columbus Circle if you would list your support/oppose comments for the FAC at James Madison. That way both articles would be able to try to move forward. ErnestKrause (talk) 15:14, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

@ErnestKrause, sure, I could leave some comments about the James Madison article. Ironically, I literally just started an FAC for 23 Wall Street before seeing this comment. I'm thinking of asking several editors to review the 23 Wall article, which stalled the last time it was at FAC. I appreciate the offer nonetheless. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:33, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I'll try to do either one of them if you can get your support/oppose comments for Madison into the review; do you prefer the FAC article you just started, or to review the GAN from July. ErnestKrause (talk) 15:39, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

I'd prefer the FAC. Thanks again for the offer - I'll post my feedback for Madison within the next couple of days. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:47, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

Nice going so far at the Morgan article. The Madison article is currently half way through the 'old listings' at FAC. Is there a chance for you to see if your support/oppose comments might be added sometime in the coming week? ErnestKrause (talk) 17:49, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

@ErnestKrause, sure thing. Sorry, I seem to have forgotten about this, but I'll definitely take a look tomorrow. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:40, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Are there any further edits I could offer to make to the article to try to gain your support? ErnestKrause (talk) 16:42, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

I've had a look at the article and can't seem to find many major issues. However, I'll add some more comments shortly. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:07, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

December songs

Thank you today for Low Memorial Library, "about the original library building constructed on Columbia University's Morningside Heights campus from 1895 to 1897. Great care was taken in designing this building, which was literally the centerpiece of the campus. Named after the father of Columbia president Seth Low (and ironically the highest point of the original campus), the structure is shaped like a Greek cross, with a limestone-and-granite facade and an ornate domed rotunda. The Low Memorial Library had space for 500,000 volumes but was inadequate as a library. It was converted into offices in 1934 but remains a prominent fixture on the Columbia campus."! - I thought of you when strolling in New York, - click on songs to see pics. -- Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:49, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Gerda. I really appreciate it. – Epicgenius (talk) 18:14, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Today was a day rich in music, with two new pictures, and also rich in WP:QAI contributions on the Main page: the TFA, 2 DYK and 2 RD with members as principal editors. The church pictured there (not by me, nice snow dust and tall evergreen) comes with memories, detailed on my talk. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:02, 11 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello Epicgenius: Enjoy the holiday season and winter solstice if it's occurring in your area of the world, and thanks for your work to maintain, improve and expand Wikipedia. Cheers, MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:21, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

MrLinkinPark333 (talk) 03:21, 12 December 2022 (UTC)

On 14 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Hyatt Grand Central New York, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the operator of the Commodore Hotel once hosted a circus, featuring an elephant in the ballroom, to impress visiting hoteliers? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Hyatt Grand Central New York. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Hyatt Grand Central New York), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

On 14 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that New York City would not allow a forest in the Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Edgar J. Kaufmann Conference Center), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

		WikiProject Architecture Award
		For your many great recent articles on Manhattan buildings, and particularly developing Low Memorial Library to Main Page FA status. Daniel Case (talk) 08:48, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

The article

You have an extraordinary number of articles awaiting GA reviews. Might I suggest that reviewing other people's articles might encourage them to review your own? Personally I try to review at least as many as I have gotten reviewed. Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:39, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

@Sturmvogel 66, thank you for the message. To reiterate what I said to another user a few months ago, I often spend way too much time on reviewing a GAN, since I tend to nitpick at the prose and coverage. As a result, it often takes me a few weeks to review a GAN. That still applies today, sadly - if I opened 20 GA reviews today, at this rate, the last review wouldn't be complete until 2024. However, I'll try my best to review other GANs. – Epicgenius (talk) 15:57, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Honestly, the criteria at GAR aren't all that strict; we're not looking for FA-quality prose, etc. So perhaps you could get used to good enough rather than outright excellence?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:02, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Yeah, I'll start doing that from now on. I most definitely set my standards too high in the past. – Epicgenius (talk) 16:20, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

The article 59th Street–Columbus Circle station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:59th Street–Columbus Circle station for comments about the article, and Talk:59th Street–Columbus Circle station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie (talk) 21:03, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year, Epicgenius!

The other day, I was having a conversation with someone about holiday cards and social media. It occurred to me that, in the years since I left Facebook, the site I use most to communicate with people I like isn't actually a social media site at all. If you're receiving this, it's pretty likely I've talked with you more recently than I have my distant relatives and college friends on FB, at very least, and we may have even collaborated on something useful. So here's a holiday "card", Wikipedia friend. :) Hope the next couple weeks bring some fun and/or rest. — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 18:21, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

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Epicgenius, it looks like QatarStarsLeague opened their review on September 3, and then stopped editing Wikipedia on September 7; at least, they haven't been back.

My suggestion would be to remove them as reviewer by deleting the review page and putting your nomination back in the queue of noms waiting for reviewers with no loss of seniority. The other alternative is to post for a second opinion in hopes of finding a new reviewer that way, though there's no first opinion. All that's there is two separate queries/pings to QatarStarsLeague, which weren't answered because they aren't around.

Please let me know how you'd like to proceed. Thanks, and I'm sorry you've had such a long wait. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:03, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset, thanks for the heads up. I suppose this article could be placed back into the GAN queue, but similar to the last time this issue came up, I'd just wait for another reviewer to create a /GA2. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:17, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Last time was different, in that a review (of sorts) had been started. In this case, there isn't any review there at all. There's also the likelihood that this GA1 non-review may end up being marked as a failure, which seems unfair (a recent discussion on the GAN talk page was heading in that direction); if the GA1 page is deleted, then there's no chance of that. Still, if you'd prefer to advance to GA2, I can certainly do that. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:45, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

@BlueMoonset, I see. I actually don't mind either way - if the GA1 were to be marked as a failure, it would only be marked as such for procedural reasons. However, if there was no review at all, then I would not mind the GA1 being deleted. – Epicgenius (talk) 21:05, 22 December 2022 (UTC)

Dec 28: WikiWednesday @ BPL + on Zoom

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On 19 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Wyndham New Yorker Hotel, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the New Yorker Hotel (pictured) once had the largest private power plant in the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Wyndham New Yorker Hotel. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page (here's how, Wyndham New Yorker Hotel), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

		Hook update
		Your hook reached 27,312 views (1,138.0 per hour), making it one of the most viewed hooks of December 2022 – nice work!

Epicgenius, it looks like you may have forgotten about your review of this nomination again. Can you please return soon to complete it? Many thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 20:51, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I have limited internet right now, but I will get back to it as soon as I can. – Epicgenius (talk) 20:56, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

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Hi -- just to let you know this is now fixed; sorry again about the inconvenience. Unfortunately I don't think I've fixed the general case but at least I now know how to stop it from happening -- the problem was that the status was not set to "onreview" but the review was transcluded, and the bot kept changing its mind about whether this meant the nomination was on review or not. I'll go through the code this weekend and try to get this resolved permanently. I'm also going to create an "opt-out" page to allow people to stop the bot from writing to their talk pages if it loses its mind. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 22:23, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks @Mike Christie. I appreciate the prompt response, and thank you for everything you're doing with ChristieBot. – Epicgenius (talk) 23:09, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Hi, Epicgenius! I've been extremely grateful for the "thanks" you've given me on the work I've done on a number of NY related pages here. I'm having a problem on another page I edited, and I'd be grateful if you could add your opinion on the Talk page for the topic, if you feel that's appropriate. It's a hotel in Austria, located in a historic castle, the Schloss Fuschl. I greatly expanded the existing article on September 12 and then even further on December 27, but another user objects to the tone of my changes and to my sourcing methods. The other user reverted all my changes each time. I would never dream of trying to sway you one way or the other. If you agree with the other user, I'll totally respect that, but if you agree with me, I'd like to know that too. I hope this isn't too much of an imposition, I'm sure you're busy, but you did a wonderful job of expanding the page I created for the St. Regis New York, so I know you take Wikipedia seriously. I hope it isn't breaking any rules to ask you to add your opinion, if it is, please disregard this, it's just that the hotel is somewhat obscure, and I worry that not many other users may comment on the Talk page there. My most recent edit can be found on the History page for the listing, and the disagreement between me and the other user is summarized in the Talk page there. Thanks!Jamesluckard (talk) 15:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

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WP:APPNOTE (An editor who may wish to draw a wider range of informed, but uninvolved, editors to a discussion can place a message at any of the following: ... On the user talk pages of concerned editors. Examples include: Editors who have participated in previous discussions on the same topic (or closely related topics)). From what I'm reading on the talk page so far, though, the dispute seems to stem from describing the building as a luxury hotel, rather than as a castle. However, since I don't have much free time at the moment, I will have to look into this in more depth later. – Epicgenius (talk

) 17:02, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much! While the other user did object to that small change in the first sentence, the user's bigger objections were to much more significant changes I made. I added probably about a dozen whole paragraphs of information, and the other user objects to all of it - both the content I added and my manner of sourcing it. It'll take a few minutes to read the other user's original comments and then to read mine, and then to also read my version of the page from December 22, to see what I wrote. I apologize, I know it's quite a bit to ask, but I'd be enormously grateful. Thanks!Jamesluckard (talk) 23:37, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your reply there! I just added a clarification, because it felt like the focus had moved to a very specific thing - whether to refer to the structure as a hotel or a castle in the opening sentence, and the bigger issue, to me, is the complete deletion by the other user of all those paragraphs I added of specific historical information about the castle and the modern hotel. Again, I'm super grateful for your time and your perspective on this. Jamesluckard (talk) 01:01, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

Hello and happy new year! I hope you have had a wonderful December. Have you seen this [new edit] at the Guggeneheim museum? Aside from the referencing errors, surprising wikilinks and unsupported description of "numerous" protests, do you think this is noteworthy and

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WP:EASTEREGG link to something else entirely, specifically The building has been the staging ground for [[Nan Goldin|numerous protests]]. Third, even if there were multiple protests, the description of such protests would be out of place in a section about commentary of the museum itself. – Epicgenius (talk

) 19:17, 28 December 2022 (UTC)

I agree. That is what I was thinking. Thanks! Before we would add in information like this, we would need press articles stating that the museum has become famous as a site for protesting. -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:05, 29 December 2022 (UTC)

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