User talk:Floydian/Archive/2015b

This is an archive of my talk page from May through August 2015

FAC

There is an oppose on your FAC, and the basis seems to be content related - just a FYI. --Rschen7754 23:31, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

I suspect that the nomination will be closed soon if the issues aren't resolved. --Rschen7754 13:51, 21 May 2015 (UTC)

Yeah I had a week long internet blackout and that prevented me from doing much. There's only one point of the oppose that I still need to address (regarding the traffic issues), but hopefully I can pull that off tonight or tomorrow. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 20:23, 23 May 2015 (UTC)

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Ontario Highway 427

Re: Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Ontario Highway 427/archive1, this is a reminder that you are not supposed to open another FAC within two weeks of having one archived. --Laser brain (talk) 12:42, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

My bad. I didn't even notice that, sorry. Can I get an exception this time since the last nomination only failed due to going stale? - Floydian ^τ _¢ 18:14, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

Change your password

You posted your password on the village pump with that password reset email. Special:ChangePassword will let you do that. Reaper Eternal (talk) 01:17, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

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Send on behalf of The Wikipedia Library using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 04:31, 7 July 2015 (UTC)

US 25

You had mentioned that you thought U.S. Route 25 in Michigan was high enough quality to sustain a FAC nomination. I've sent it to ACR at Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Assessment/A-Class Review/U.S. Route 25 in Michigan, and if you're up for giving it a go over, that would be appreciated. I'm hoping to give the US 16 article a little bit of attention here shortly so it can head to FAC, and then US 25 should go there afterwards. Those two promotions, plus the necessary FLC of List of U.S. Highways in Michigan and the remaining GANs would be enough to get a FT out of Michigan's US Highways. something I'd love to have in place for October 10, the to-be-nominated date for a TFA of U.S. Route 41 Business (Marquette, Michigan). (October 10, 2015, is both the 10th anniversary of Bus. US 41's decommissioning and the 10th anniversary of my Wikipedia account, so I figure it is a good day to have a TFA, and it would be even better to have "Part of the U.S. Highways in Michigan series, one of Wikipedia's featured topics" sitting at the bottom of the TFA blurb.) Imzadi 1979 → 13:31, 30 July 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Today's featured article/August 23, 2015

"The freeway's history dates back to 1931, when work began to widen the Middle Road in a similar fashion to the nearby Dundas Highway and Lakeshore Road as a relief project during the Great Depression." I'm not sure what you mean, and looking at Dundas Highway didn't straighten it out for me. Were those three highways being widened at the same time? Was it being given the same width as those two highways already had? Was it widened in the same manner? I'm not sure what the sentence is saying. - Dank (push to talk) 20:57, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

Lakeshore and Dundas were both widened as cement highways during the roaring twenties. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 03:43, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Okay, that works. - Dank (push to talk) 11:06, 8 August 2015 (UTC)

Today is your day, gratz. One problem: check out the top section at WP:ERRORS. The sentence in question is "When it was initially opened in 1937, it was the first intercity divided highway in North America." There's an objection that "when it opened" would be simpler than "When it was initially opened". My position is that an initial opening is a first opening, which implies there was a second opening at some point. If you meant that, we can leave it as is, though we might want to make the second opening explicit. If the sense you want is "It was the first intercity divided highway in North America when it opened in 1937", then that wording would work. - Dank (push to talk) 13:02, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

The history books have been somewhat confusing on that particular concept. When The King and Queen consort commemorated the route on June 7, 1937, the route was only completed between Toronto and Hamilton and between St. Catharines and Niagara Falls. A second "commemoration" or officiated opening took place on August 23, 1940. I suppose I should find a way to work that in, what are your thoughts? - Floydian ^τ _¢ 13:20, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

I see. Since the question of the openings is a little complicated, how about if we leave it out? Does "It was the first intercity divided highway in North America in 1937 ..." work? - Dank (push to talk) 13:36, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Bumping ... does my wording work for you? - Dank (push to talk) 15:08, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Yep, looks good to me. My apologies on not being very swift with replies, busy busy busy. - Floydian ^τ _¢ 16:32, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Not a problem. - Dank (push to talk) 17:27, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

There's a new question for you at WP:ERRORS. - Dank (push to talk) 13:58, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Dirty electricity

Floydian, I saw your draft on dirty electricity. If you didn't know, Fluorescent lamps and health § Electromagnetic radiation exists. Maybe that's an appropriate place for some of what you have written? - Brianhe (talk) 13:31, 29 August 2015 (UTC)