Talk:Butterfield House (New York City)

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Rathfelder recently edited the infobox here to remove |nrhp_type=cp. This building is within the Greenwich Village Historic District, but if it is not a CP and has no NRHP status, then it needs a different infobox. This change has put it in Category:NRHP infobox needing cleanup. If it is not a CP, then the infobox should be {{Infobox building}} or {{Infobox historic site}} since it is apparently a NYC Landmark. I don't see much NRHP specific info in Greenwich Village nor have I found the NRHP nomination form. But a NYCL would probably be a CP also? Does anyone want to research this? MB 17:36, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Per the nomination (warning, very large PDF), it is described as an intrusion (PDF page 8). Magic♪piano 18:41, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Ok, I changed it to Infobox building. It doesn't look like it is a NYCL either, just within the Greenwich Village NYCL, mirroring the NRHP HD. Thanks. MB 19:04, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

I know nothing about the article, but the infobox generated a spurious category - not just this, but for several other articles. So perhaps someone could sort that out? Rathfelder (talk) 19:31, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Rathfelder, I see you are talking about Category:Historic district contributing properties in Lower Manhattan. With this article, it was correct to remove the CP designation since this property was not a NRHP contributing property. But if it had been, your change would have been wrong. The fix is to add |nocat=yes to prevent the automatic categorization. MB 20:17, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Actually, your change was still wrong because it caused the error above. (NRHP infobox needing cleanup). MB 20:18, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

I'm just a categoriser. I dont know anything about infoboxes. But I think someone needs to check if they generate categories that dont exist. Rathfelder (talk) 23:28, 30 December 2019 (UTC)

Rathfelder, I went through the edit history and found that the bogus category has existed since Sep 12, 2019 when the creator of the article (who has done almost nothing else on WP except this one article) changed the infobox from building to NRHP. They should have noticed the redlink category at the time, but you were the first to do anything about it. Thanks for trying to fix it, but in the future I would recommend adding |nocat=yes as the best solution instead of removing |nrhp_type=. MB 02:40, 31 December 2019 (UTC)