Talk:Tompkins Square Park

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Are the 1988 riots referred to here the riots in RENT? I know I've heard that the riots in that show were based on real events. Izzycat 23:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I am in the midst of editing this article. I expect to finish it by 8 August 2006. I urge Wikipedians to refrain from making any major edits, as it is a work in progress. --DavidShankBone 07:41, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think that the material on the police riots ought to be its own article. In the context of an article about a park that's been around for a century and a half (and been the site of several riots), it's an excessive focus on one important but not definitive event. Nareek 17:04, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree... it needs to be moved. --W.marsh 17:05, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I completely agree and thought about that once I wrote it. If one of you want to create a page and write a synopsis on the main TSP page, you're more than welcome, but I only began the riot article last night and it's unfinished, needs work. I request you refrain from editing the riot article itself until I finish it. Then you all can have at it. Right now I need to go get a an air cast. --DavidShankBone 17:14, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and moved it to a sub-article, and put a summary in the main article. Other than that, have at it. But since this is Wikipedia anyone can edit the article... you can't really reserve articles, except to let people know you're going to be making changes. So anyway, it's at Tompkins Square Park Riot and I've tidied it up a bit but am done for now. --W.marsh 17:31, 6 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

There seems to be an awful lot about one activist in the 20th Century section. Is any of it notable? Nareek 19:55, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Nareek, I had the same question. It can definitely be taken off Tompkins Square Park, all of it, because the editor also included it on the Tompkins Square Park Police Riot page - no need for the duplication. A policy I have for the pages I create is not to take something out, but to edit it and try to cite it, if worthy of inclusion. I haven't had time to do that, but I need to do so b/c I recently nominated that page for a Good Article. I don't think it's there, but I want to get insight from other editors on how to improve it. This addition, at least until I can focus my Lexis-Nexis account on it, has hurt the quality of my article as is. But there may be information in there that will improve it; nevertheless, you can delete it off this page. --DavidShankBone 20:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

monument for the General Slocum boating disaster[edit]

can someone please make a picture of this?! thank you! --BLueFiSH ✉ 09:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]