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August 24: Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island

You are invited to the picnic anyone can edit on Roosevelt Island, at Southpoint Park. Please dress for the weather and bring a blanket or lawn chair for seating; we will be having this picnic on the grass. Bring some potluck as well as some board games to add to the fun! All are welcome, new and experienced! Sunday, August 24, 2025 Wiknic @ Roosevelt Island Time: 2:00 - 7:00 pm (come by any time!) Location: Roosevelt Island – Southpoint Park; look for our Wikipedia/Wikimedia NYC banner. (In case of inclement weather, we plan to relocate to our usual venue, Prime Produce in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan.) All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

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November 15: Kelly Street Garden edit-a-thon

You are invited to join the Wikimedia NYC community for an urban gardening-themed edit-a-thon at the Kelly Street Garden in Longwood in the Bronx. This is the third event in the Community Garden series and is part of a collective project of remembrance. All are welcome, new and experienced! All attendees are subject to Wikimedia NYC's Code of Conduct and Photography Policy. Meeting info: Saturday, November 15 Kelly Street Garden edit-a-thon (RSVP on-wiki) 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm Kelly Street Garden, the Bronx

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There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. PaulT2022 (talk) 19:50, 11 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Graywalls (talk) 22:11, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why is this guy Graywalls always right? Always undoing my edits? Iss246 (talk) 23:05, 15 November 2025 (UTC) Why is he the umpire? Iss246 (talk) 23:05, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is the story. City College and other units of the City University of New York have an Honors College. Acceptance to the Honors College means a student gets free tuition. Many other institutions that have an honors division also provide for free tuition. But CUNY and City College, which is part of CUNY, offer something else, something unique, namely, access to NYC cultural institutions such as museums, Broadway theaters, concert halls, etc. Of course, NYC is rich with such institutions, which makes the University's passport to those institutions unique and difficult to duplicate by colleges and universities located elsewhere. I don't understand why Graywalls is policing me. Over and over, he deletes my additions to WP. And of course there is all the tedious back-and-forth with him about the deletions and my defending the additions. I would be happy if he were to edit one of my additions to improve the writing or add an appropriate source. That I would appreciate. But he doesn't. He just tears out what I write. He does this again and again, which makes writing for WP so demoralizing along with his tedious arguments on talk pages. Many times when I make an addition to WP, he intervenes to reverse it. My preference is that he do a little research and make the writing better. He does this to many other contributors to WP.

I will give you an straightforward example of what I mean by trying to make someone else's addition to a WP entry better. I was reading the WP article about the writer and editor Tina Brown. Yeah! Sometimes I read a WP article just to appreciate the content. I did that with the Tina Brown article after I read a transcript of Lulu Garcia-Navarro's interview of Brown. Toward the end of the article, there is a mention that her late husband Harry Evans was knighted but there was no source. I therefore looked for a potentially appropriate source, read it to be sure it was appropriate, found it to be a reasonable source, and wrote it into the WP article about Tina Brown. That is what I mean by helping a previous contributor, rather than tearing out the sentence as if it were an offense to the encyclopedia. Isn't that better than tearing down the writing of someone who had previously added to the article? Iss246 (talk) 23:28, 15 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

December 5: Free Culture Friday

You are invited to Foundation and Friends' Free Culture Friday at Prime Produce on Friday, December 5. This event will be held upstairs in the Cybernetics Library and will feature a reception with Wikimedia Foundation staff in the afternoon, followed by a more informal gathering for editing and socializing into the evening. No experience of anything at all is required. All are welcome! Friday, December 5, 2025 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm (Wikimedia Foundation staff + community meet-and-greet) 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm (Open salon, hacking, and board games) Prime Produce, 424 W 54th St All attendees at Wikimedia NYC events are subject to the Wikimedia NYC Code of Conduct and Photography Policy.

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--Wikimedia New York City Team via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 00:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

If you could add a page number for S. Willis Rudy. The College of the City of New York: A History 1847 – 1947. The City College Press, 1949. JSTOR, https://jstor.org/stable/community.33126624 and the cite you just added that would be great. Jjazz76 (talk) 20:02, 10 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An automated process has detected that when you recently edited Samuel J. Tilden High School, you added a link pointing to the disambiguation page Thomas Brown.

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Your recent editing history at Townsend Harris High School shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war. This means that you are repeatedly changing a page's content back to how you believe it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree with your changes. Please stop editing the page and use the talk page to work toward creating a version of the page that represents consensus among the editors involved. Wikipedia provides a page explaining how this is accomplished. If discussions reach an impasse, you can request help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution such as a third opinion. In some cases, you may wish to request page protection while a discussion to resolve the dispute is ongoing.

If you continue edit warring, you may be blocked from editing Wikipedia—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, or whether it involves the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also, please keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule— if things indicate that you intend to continue reverting content on the page. Graywalls (talk) 05:38, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Graywalls. You are the one who is warring. I acknowledged you when you wrote that the NY Post is not sufficiently reliable. Then I turned to the New York Daily News as a source. But I checked it out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources/5 Here is a quote from WP:

"Most editors consider the content of New York Daily News articles to be generally reliable, but question the accuracy of its tabloid-style headlines." I can therefore use it as a source about a NYC high school.

@Graywalls.Instead of deleting what I add to WP, if you have an objection, why don't you try to improve it? If you have a question about the Daily News as a source, why don't you look it up. You go around deleting stuff without trying to see what is right about the text. Iss246 (talk) 23:40, 22 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please do not attack other editors, as you did at Talk:Townsend_Harris_High_School. Comment on content, not on contributors. Personal attacks damage the community and deter users. Please stay cool and keep this in mind while editing. I don't appreciate comments like "Stop with the BS" as you did in the comment as well as your edit summary, directed at me in Special:Diff/1328987423. This is not the first time you've received concerns about the way in which you express your disagreement with others' edits. Graywalls (talk) 02:17, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Graywalls. Look who's talking. You deleted text I wrote when the text could be improved. Of course, I quickly came to agree with you about avoiding the use of the NY Post. When I added the NY Daily News, you deleted the source although WP indicated that the source is fine. You could have looked up what WP says about the Daily News or taken my word for having looked up the source being fine. But NO. You had to delete me. You are the one who goes to war. Don't blame me for your overstepping.

I had the right idea when I recommended that you not edit WP entries I edit and I not edit WP entries you edit. Iss246 (talk) 03:00, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You realize you followed me into Townsend Harris High School article? I see no edit on it from you... until I edited, then you came along almost immediately after me. Regardless, civility towards other editors is expected at all times. Graywalls (talk) 03:09, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Don't be so self-centered. How many different pages have you edited? My guess is thousands. My watchlist has about 100 entries. Occasionally I visit a page not on my watchlist out of plain old human interest, like Townsend Harris HS, a school my friend's son attended. I have an interest in Townsend Harris independently of you. He founded City College; I also happened to watch the movie in which John Wayne played Harris; the movie is The Barbarian and the Geisha. How many times have I not edited pages you edited? Thousands. How many times have we overlapped? We overlapped mainly on pages I edited, with you always deleting my edits. You come on like gangbusters when you aim at my edits. You mainly address my edits with a scythe. It is pathetic how you try to bully me, as if I can be bullied by the likes of you. I've had bigger challenges. Iss246 (talk) 03:34, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop attacking other editors. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Comment on content, not on other contributors or people. Please refrain from name-calling such as "don't be so self=centered" and "It is pathetic how you try to bully me". Thanks for your attention to this issue. Sundayclose (talk) 14:07, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sundayclose, you threaten me with a block for arguing (you call it name-calling) with Graywalls. But you ignore that that Graywalls provoked me by attacking me, claiming that I edited a page because he edited the page. You also ignore, like Graywalls ignored, that he failed to acknowledge that he edited perhaps a thousand pages that I have not touched. How about taking my side for once? Iss246 (talk) 05:19, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have a long history of personal attacks and battleground behavior. It damages Wikipedia and discourages other editors from making useful contributions. And despite several blocks, you continue even after my last warning, calling an editor "self-centered". I don't know if you can't grasp "comment on content, not contributors", or if you willfully ignore that policy. But sadly, you are approaching yet another block. I sincerely hope you'll take heed and choose your words carefully. You might consider taking a break from articles where you have been involved in conflict. You've made some good edits, but the personal attacks must stop. Sundayclose (talk) 14:10, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Why don't you censure Graywalls for accusing me of following him around on WP? Iss246 (talk) 16:18, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Because Graywalls doesn't make personal attacks and treat Wikipedia like a battleground. Like everyone on Wikipedia, Graywalls can edit wherever he pleases without your or my permission. Sundayclose (talk) 17:31, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is not what I wrote. My complaint is that he accused me of following him around WP. Please don't ignore that. Iss246 (talk) 19:14, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Graywalls simply pointed out the order in which the two of you have edited an article. That's not a personal attack. But even if Graywalls made a personal attack (which he did not), that in no way is a basis for your name calling, personal attacks, and battleground behavior. Trying to justify your inappropriate behavior by pointing a finger of blame at others is not how you should handle a conflict. Instead follow WP:DR and never make a personal attack regardless of what others are doing. I'm trying to help you avoid another block, but you have to heed warnings. Sundayclose (talk) 19:43, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In your view he didn't make a personal attack. In my view he did. I can see that you are on his side. Iss246 (talk) 20:31, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I'm on Wikipedia's side. My goal here wasn't to take sides but to protect Wikipedia and protect you from a block. So I'm finished here. Sundayclose (talk) 00:25, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for contributing to the article Townsend Harris High School. However, one of Wikipedia's core policies is that material must be verifiable and attributed to reliable sources. You have recently used citations which copied, or mirrored, material from Wikipedia. This leads to a circular reference and is not acceptable. Most mirrors are clearly labeled as such, but some are in violation of our license and do not provide the correct attribution. Please help by adding alternate sources to the article you edited! If you need any help or clarification, you can look at Help:Contents/Editing Wikipedia or ask at Wikipedia:New contributors' help page, or just ask me. Thank you. Sam Kuru (talk) 12:13, 23 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kuru, I thought that the item in question was written independently of WP but that WP picked it up. Iss246 (talk) 05:13, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's a poorly constructed exact copy of the Wikipedia article as it was in 2010. It attempts to credit Wikipedia with the big "Wikipedia" link to a page in Russian that notes it was based on the English language Wikipedia article, and with an odd attribution to the "Wikimedia Foundation 2010" at the bottom of the page. Sorry, that one's a hot mess. Sam Kuru (talk) 05:20, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the information. Iss246 (talk) 05:21, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]