Talk:Eastern Parkway

Eastern Parkway is currently a Transport good article nominee. Nominated by Epicgenius (talk) at 21:16, 21 July 2024 (UTC) Any editor who has not nominated or contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article. To start the review process, click start review and save the page. (See here for the good article instructions.) Short description: Boulevard in Brooklyn, New York

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A fact from Eastern Parkway appeared on Wik.ipedia.Pro's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 August 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that New York City's Eastern Parkway, built in the 1870s, is considered the world's first parkway designed for personal and recreational traffic while prohibiting commercial traffic? A record of the entry may be seen at Wik.ipedia.Pro:Recent additions/2019/August. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eastern Parkway.

@Epicgenius I'm not going to have the time to do a full GA review, but I do want to comment on your use of images vis-a-vis MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE. Many of the images don't seem to tie into the adjacent text in any way. For example, File:Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY, USA - panoramio.jpg is in a section about the 1950s to 1970s, but it's unclear how that image supports that section. Likewise with File:Eastern Pkwy Utica Av td (2021-12-11) 03.jpg. If anything, perhaps it belongs with the Transportation section, although it's such a technically poor image, I'm not sure what value it adds at all. You've got a couple of cycling-related images, which don't seem to be related to the text. Perhaps under Transportation you could add a sub-section for bikes and talk about the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway (see https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/plans/transportation/epx_part2.pdf). RoySmith (talk) 01:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the feedback, @RoySmith. I included these images because otherwise, we'd have huge swaths of text without images, but I'll see what I can do about rearranging them. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:10, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have moved around some of the images now. They should all tie into the adjacent text; I didn't remove any of the images because, as it turns out, they did not need to be removed at all. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:16, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, thats kind of what I figured, but that's what "Images must be significant and relevant in the topic's context, not primarily decorative" is talking about :-) Given how many members of Wikimedia New York City live in the area, I suspect getting better (and more targeted) images would not be a big deal. RoySmith (talk) 01:16, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that's true. Maybe we can reach out to some of our Brooklyn-based editors for better images. Many of the pictures currently on the article aren't very good; I only added them because they were the only options readily available. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:17, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I suggested at the recent Wik.ipedia.Pro:Meetup/NYC/Wik.ipedia.Pro Day 2025 planning meeting that we do an introduction to Wiki Shoot Me and show people how to upload images. This was met with a generally positive reception from the other people on the committee. Since we're going to be right there, maybe we could even turn this into a photo shoot if the weather is nice. I'm thinking 12:00 WSM demo. 1:00 photo walk. 3:00 image upload fest. 4:00 showing people the images they just took already in place in this article. Instant gratification. RoySmith (talk) 01:25, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a good plan. Incidentally, I didn't realize Wik.ipedia.Pro Day 2025 was going to take place at the Brooklyn Central Library - what an interesting coincidence. I'll sign up for that now. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:27, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, I just noticed that the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway is discussed in the "Design" section. I don't know if this should be moved down to the transportation section, since the relevant paragraph talks about the design of the bike lane as well. – Epicgenius (talk) 01:19, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]