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Draft article that needs editing: Draft:Gentrification of New York City

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Hello New York City talkpage readers - The article Draft:Gentrification of New York City needs editing. If you are knowledgable on this subject, please give it a read and edit.

- Wil540 art (talk) 05:16, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing the image placement in wide browser windows

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Greetings and felicitations. I admit that I use very wide (over 5000 pixels) browser windows, That said, the images near the bottom of this article, plus the "Clear" template, make a nearly three-screen-tall whitespace in my monitor. I am not looking to remove any images, just move them to horizontal galleries, which will wrap to the window (unlike the "Multiple image" template). Comments, concerns, and so on? —DocWatson42 (talk) 05:36, 18 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

New article: 2024 Manhattan stabbing spree

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2024 Manhattan stabbing spree

The Last Hungry Cat (talk) 23:25, 20 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

United States vs. US

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@Nikkimaria, you just made extensive edits in which a number of instances of "United States" were replaced by "US". Whether to abbreviate or not is debatable. Although MOS:ABBR states that, for countries, "the name does not need to be written out in full on first use, nor provided on first use in parentheses after the full name if written out", it also notes that "United States instead of an acronym is often better formal writing style, and is an opportunity for commonality." We need consensus on which form to use (of course specific instances might be allowable exceptions). We can't have "United States" ... "United States" ... "United States" in parts of the article and "US" ... "US" ... "US" in others. Consistency is always important, and to go back and forth like this is unencyclopedic and looks very careless. As points of reference, I see that Chicago and Los Angeles strongly favor "United States", and this would be my own preference. Anyone else have any thoughts about this? --Alan W (talk) 06:04, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

More important for consistency is to use "U.S." rather than "US". There were numerous cases of "U.S." already in the article, but "US" is almost exclusively used in front of a dollar sign (as in US$1 billion). Station1 (talk) 10:01, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with @Station1: as someone who still subphonates (it's my best guide to whether I'm reading something correctly or writing something like this comment euphoniously amd unambiguously) it might be different if U were not a vowel, but US can be unconsciously pronounced as the monosyllabic "Us" as in the magazine US (now more properly "Us Weekly"), rather than as two separate letters.
[As a serendipitous example, I read "wrt", without periods, in @Nikkimaria:'s comment below as "w?rt" or "write" or a misprint instead of as "with regards to". I've taken the unjustifiable liberty of altering her text to expand "wrt" to "with regards to" for the benefit of others who don't text.] —— Shakescene (talk) 02:21, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't think there's a major concern with regards to commonality, since someone who gets that far into the article will certainly understand that US is referring to the United States. On the other hand, repeating the full name over and over is less "formal" and more repetitive. It's not careless to vary phrasing deliberately, and I think there is merit in using the shorter form more often. Nikkimaria (talk) 18:12, 7 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
For what it's worth, my 1976 paperback edition of The New York Times Manual of Style and Usage says "United States. Do not abbreviate in stories except in names, designations of highways and quoted matter." —— Shakescene (talk) 02:21, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that that guidance is now dated; the latest version of Chicago, for instance, allows use of "US" in text as long as the meaning is clear, which it would seem to be in the cases under discussion here. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:43, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The Times Manual is not necessarily "dated" because Chicago has its own preferences. Every publisher has its own "house style". What I am trying to say is that, whichever way is agreed upon, we should be consistent. The section "Ethnicity and nationality", for example, has four instances of "United States". "Education" has four instances of "US". It is jarring to have it both ways, unless an exception is made for such things as "US$" where money is mentioned. It makes it look like this article was thrown together piecemeal. Which, in a way, it unavoidably has been. But part of our editing should involve smoothing out these differences. I would be happy to smooth out the differences myself. But I don't want to do any such thing unless some kind of consensus is reached. Oh, and there is also that about "U.S.", as Station1 has noted. That way is still preferred by many in the United States. I think that Shakescene raises some points worth considering as well. However it works out, the one thing I would insist on is a reasonable consistency. --Alan W (talk) 03:57, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't have access to the Times manual to verify whether its guidance has changed since 1976, unfortunately, though I would not be surprised to see that it has. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:03, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know about the Times manual, but I just picked up a section of the Times itself, and I see it's "United States" wherever I see the country named. Hmm, in another section, one article uses "U.S." as an adjective. So there must be instances where some variation is permitted. (Note that there it's never "US", always "U.S." when abbreviated there.) Their writers must of course be following the manual. Anyway, although I personally prefer the full "United States", I think we do need to be consistent. Let's pick one style and go with it. Numerous Wikipedia style guidelines insist on consistency, and the way it was done first in a given article should have some extra weight, too. --Alan W (talk) 04:36, 8 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]