Talk:Central Park

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Fauna

I think the main species the park is known for is missing. 98.4.103.219 (talk) 18:41, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Original name

Template:Re The reason I removed "the Central Park" as a former name is that the definite article is a grammatical part of speech, not part of the title, similar to "the Brooklyn Bridge", "the Statue of Liberty", "the Metropolitan Museum of Art". Even in the case like "the Bronx", we do not mention "Bronx" as an alternate name. Without the definite article, it is the same as the common name "Central Park". In NYC we don't generally refer to parks with the definite articles, except for The Battery.

Also, if we really want to be precise, the original name was not even a proper noun, but two common nouns together, as in a "central park" due to its central location in Manhattan. Therefore, "a central park", "the central park", etc. were acceptable common terms for the park. "Central Park" is capitalized now because that has come to be the official name for Central Park. epicgenius (talk) 20:59, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

• Template:Ping, the MOS:LEAD Template:Tquote (my emphasis). I can't find any mention of the "The Central Park" in the article. Can you point to reliable sources in support of this? Paradoctor (talk) 21:34, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

• Template:Ping Yes, I will find find a reliable source and post it here. Ganymede94 (talk) 21:46, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

• Template:Ping I still disagree. In its original name, the definite article “the” was a part of its title. Looks up original design plans for the park, they all say “The Central Park” New York—not, “Central Park” New York. It’s similar to the definite article being including in “The New York Times” or “The Wall Street Journal.”

Moreover, your examples are completely different. For those examples, you have to include the definite article, otherwise it wouldn’t sound right. You would say “I’m going to the State of Liberty”, but not, “I’m going to Statue of Liberty”. Thus, for the common usage of the park name you always say, “I’m going to Central Park”. Saying, “I’m going to The Central Park” is different as ‘The’ is part of the title and not simply a grammatical part of speech like the example you gave.

Lastly, the original name was a proper noun. And also, the words ‘central’ and ’park’ are not two nouns together. ‘Central’ is an adjective.

The original title of the park merits inclusion in the article. If not in the intro, then at least in the history section. Ganymede94 (talk) 21:43, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Ganymede94, it's okay to include in the history section. I'd recommend against including it in the lead though, especially in the first sentence without greater context. To a reader, saying "The Central Park" is a "former" name would stick out as unusual, especially with no context as to why it was considered a proper name. If we are looking at the same plans, then "the central park" is actually a set of common nouns that are capitalized in news article titles (which tend to capitalize almost every noun, verb, adjective, and adverb). epicgenius (talk) 21:48, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Center-aligned captions?

Why were so many of these image captions changed to be center-aligned? This is not a standard on any article that I know of, and as well it is inconsistently applied. I'd recommend keeping the standard left-alignment here. ɱ (talk) 15:00, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Drawing map shapes

Hi, guys. Because this is the coolest article on Wikipedia, I'm wanting to know how to draw an infobox map shape highlight overlay like this for less-cool park articles. Is there a tutorial, and an app for drawing on a map or for importing an SVG? I understand that {{maplink}} has an "id=" parameter which sources data from https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160409 but I see no coordinates there. I don't want to go offtopic here, but I can't find anyone to ask. Thanks. — Smuckola(talk) 08:31, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi - generally you can ask questions about maplink (which this article uses) at its talk page. Template talk:maplink redirects to Module talk:Mapframe, where questions are posed about it. As for adding maps of park boundaries, you can follow my tutorial, written for lines instead of shapes, but the principle is still there. If you need any help with it, please don't hesitate to ask. ɱ (talk) 12:56, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Template:Re hi again - you may be interested to know now that I have a tutorial specifically for shapes like this park - view it here - Wikipedia:Creating shape maps from OpenStreetMap data. Cheers -ɱ (talk) 23:56, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

www.centralparknyc.org sources dead.

Many of the www.centralparknyc.org URLs are now dead. I believe the site was restructured recently and the info has new pages. I do not plan to track them down. (I found the dead URLs.) Luckily an archived page had been added to most of the cites. I simple had to change the URL status to dead. User-duck (talk) 00:29, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Streetlight codes

Each streetlight in the Park has a four-digit code at the base. This not only identifies the light, but if read properly, will tell you which street you are nearest, and whether you are on the east or west side of the Park. Could we have some info on the origin of this? 2601:647:5800:9120:603B:788:9186:4467 (talk) 21:29, 15 March 2023 (UTC)

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"Most filmed location in the world" in first paragraph of lede

This is sourced to one unscientific analysis of imdb. While it may be true, does it belong in the first paragraph? ♥ L'Origine du monde ♥ ^{♥ Talk ♥} 15:07, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

I don't see a source anymore so this claim should probably be deleted right? Ericfood (talk | contribs) 17:14, 24 March 2023 (UTC)

Good catch! Such a big claim would need a pretty clear source. NeoChrono Ryu (talk) 19:09, 2 April 2023 (UTC)

Still no source, I'm deleting the sentence. Ericfood (talk | contribs) 20:16, 8 May 2023 (UTC)