Talk:U-Drop Inn

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A fact from U-Drop Inn appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 28 March 2008.

[edit] Advertising

Sounds like advertising copy or a magazine article. We just want the facts, ma'am. Deb (talk) 12:59, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite needed

I'm not sure what this article is right now. There's no references, no location, nothing verifiable, and the entire article just seems like a skeleton to hang personal attacks on. I've nominated it for deletion on the basis of being an attack article, if it stays, it should still need a pretty good rewrite. Redrocket (talk) 08:21, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Tower Station is listed in the National Register of Historical Places[1], so I'm inclined to say rewrite. With the attack nature, though, maybe a delete to clear the history then recreate as a stub? Collectonian (talk)

Since the article doesn't even mention that fact, that might be a good idea. To be honest I saw the piles of personal attacks, and didn't even notice the link at the bottom. Redrocket (talk) 08:30, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Yep, shame too. I did some quick research after my post, and it appears the station is at least somewhat well known, and was even mentioned in at least three books. I'll try to give it some love this weekend to get it into much better shape. Collectonian (talk) 08:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Sounds good. I've removed my deletion request, and pared down the attacks until reliable information can be added. Thanks! Redrocket (talk) 08:44, 22 March 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I think I'm done. What do you think? Collectonian (talk) 04:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NRHP Documentation and Night Image

As a note, I have requested the NRHP documentation for Tower Station. They said its currently taking two weeks to process requests, so once it arrives I'll expand the article to include information from that, particularly/hopefully the architectural section.

I also contacted a Flickr photographer who has some awesome night images of the U-Drop showing the neon accents. I asked if he would be willing to share a low res version here and he agreed, but I think he may have been put off by an overly complicated upload system. He registered here, waited the appropriate time, then was told to go to the Commons, register there and upload there instead. :( So may not be able to get that image after all. :( Collectonian (talk) 01:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

I too tried to upload an image recently (for another article), and eventually gave up in frustration. The system could definitely do with being made more user-friendly. Awien (talk) 11:26, 9 April 2008 (UTC)