User talk:Albany NY

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[edit] Inside Albany

The show is gone, :( Chivista 19:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Price Chopper

I appreciate your attention to this very fine food chain. Chivista 19:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)s

Thanks! Albany NY 02:20, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Albany8.jpg - Graphic Lab Request

I have done the requested work (from your request to the Graphic Lab). You can see the finished product here. Thanks for making a request! -YK Times 01:07, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cultural Education Center

Hey Albany, just thought i would drop a line and let you know that I started a page for the CEC. Since you seem to be the person most-interested in Albany around here, I figured you would like to take a look and throw your two cents in - keep in mind, its still very "stubby" at the moment. As you've probably seen, i've been dabbling with some albany material, especially the NYSM page - if you have any comments or critiques of what I write, please don't hesitate to let me know.

But I have a question about the CEC that you might be able to answer - among many of the pages around here, it says that the building is 10 stories tall. However, there is an 11th floor (where OCE staff are located) while the 4th floor appears, at least to me, to be at least 2 stories. Do you know how the stories are counted? -- Oaxaca dan 05:34, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi, Oaxaca dan, I'm glad you started the CEC page; it looks great. I added an infobox and geolinks template. Concerning the number of floors, I got the number ten from Emporis. They usually seem to be correct, but they could be wrong in this case. Feel free to fix the floor number on the affected pages. (I don't know how they count floors.) In regards to the museum page, thanks for adding all that information. Perhaps one of us could add a brief description of each permanent exhibit (like the descriptions of the research projects); I think this would enhance the page. Finally, thank you for creating the category "Buildings and structures in Albany, New York". I've been meaning to do that but never got around to it. Please contact me if you have any more questions of comments. --Albany NY 19:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Sounds good - I'll do a little dabbling with the museum exhibit descriptions (at least, the ones I can off the top of my head). I saw the floor reference on that Emporis page, and I guess what it comes down to is that I just don't know if floors are counted differently among engineers/architects then what it says in the elevators. Its a very minor detail, so I don't think we need to loose too much sleep over it. No problem with making the cat and the other stuff, and it's good to find someone actually interested in Albany. Take care -- Oaxaca dan 19:50, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] We need to talk.

First of all I'd like to thatnk you for cleaning up Rene Paul Chambellan. It was pretty much my baby until RPC,s grandson showed up and added some invaluable inside stuff, like his picture, but the article got a bit lopsided and I'd not taken the time to fix it. It now looks great. Your picture is another good addition, but I am wondering if you could shoot something lower so that the details of the sculpture can be seen better? One of the problems with architectural sculpture is that it is often hard to see and while your picture is a great example of that . . . something closer would be (opinion) better. Moving on. I have done over 20 years research into the life and work of Corrado Parducci and the last thing he did, as age 80 or so, was a lintel in one of the chambers of the New York State Capitol building that included a portrait of HH Richardson. I have a picture somewhwere of him working on it in his studeo in Detroit, but nothing of it in situ. IS that something you could shoot sometime? I was in Albany years ago and some of the pictures that I took thre can be found in Charles Keck, HH Richardson, and J. Massey Rhind - but none for my man Parducci. Life is supposed to be interesting. Carptrash 15:30, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning up the RPC page was no problem. I also did some work on the Chanin Building page. I'm sorry the Home Savings Bank picture isn't zoomed in enough; I took it as a general structural picture more than a sculpture-detail one. In regards to the Capitol, the carvings inside of it are magnificent. Unfortunately, new security measures put in place following September 11, 2001 make it harder to enter the building. --Albany NY 19:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
Yes, I have been told several times by fellows carrying guns that it is a crime to "photo recon a federal building." That means take a picture of. i have found that it is often possible to ask around and get permission, but NOT always. Your picture of the City Hall will probably get removed from Richardsonian Romanesque because the article is about buildings influenced by HH and not ones by him. See you around, Carptrash 00:00, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
I should have realized that the picture didn't belong. I removed it today. --Albany NY 14:02, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
However since you have it uploaded you might as well put it in the HH gallery. Yours is a completely different view of the building and would be a nice addition. Carptrash 18:01, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
Good idea. It's a nice picture that was uploaded by Wknight94. --Albany NY 02:44, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Iwerks Wikiproject

Hi. I noticed some of your contributions to the article Iwerks, so I figuired that you might be interested in joining the Iwerks Wiki-project. So, if you are interested, feel completely free to add your name to the list. Happy editing....

--TomasBat (@)(Sign) 20:54, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the invitation. I don't have enough knowledge about Iwerks to join the project, but I would be glad to help it with copyediting for grammar, punctuation, wording, etc. It's good that you started this project because Wikipedia's coverage of Iwerks is lacking (especially when compared to IMAX coverage). Good luck on your new project. --Albany NY 13:30, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia New York Meet-Up

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[edit] Fair use disputed for Image:AHSLogo1.gif

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[edit] Lark Street

Please review and make any corrections, updates, and cites, please. Bearian 21:31, 5 November 2007 (UTC)