User talk:Joeyconnick

Why is it useful to remove information on number of episodes in a main role?

Hi there,

In the “Freddie Highmore” article, why is it important to remove the information stating the number of episodes he did of Close to the Enemy (7 episodes), Bates Motel (50 episodes), and The Good Doctor (126 episodes)?
The number of episodes for someone who performs in a main role is generally included in Wikipedia articles as worthwhile information.
The “James Arness” article shows how many episodes he did of Gunsmoke (635 episodes!).
The “Raymond Burr” article shows how many episodes he did of Perry Mason (271 episodes) and of Ironside (194 episodes).
As more recent examples, the “Vera Farmiga” and “Richard Schiff” articles show the numbers of episodes they did opposite Freddie Highmore (50 episodes for Vera Farmiga and 121 episodes for Richard Schiff, respectively).
What is the rationale for making the “Freddie Highmore” article an exception? Why is it useful to remove that information? UPU898 (talk) 11:14, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

It's not an exception... those other articles are not following the guidelines at MOS:TVCAST. Basically, we're a general readership encyclopedia, not IMDb or a film/tv wiki or encyclodepdia. We don't include all possible info on every little thing just because that info is sourceable. Stems from WP:NOTAGUIDE. —Joeyconnick (talk) 20:51, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

Old user

Curious if you recall, or are familiar, with an old user called User:UrbanNerd? Just curious as a current editor reminds me strongly of them. Canterbury Tail talk 12:31, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi Canterbury Tail! I didn't start "hardcore" editing until around 2017, so can't say I'm familiar with UrbanNerd... looks like they were blocked in 2013? Took a brief list of articles they edited and not many of them are ones I've worked on. A few yeah but nothing much is ringing a bell. —Joeyconnick (talk) 21:23, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Regarding Dating History

If dating history is unencyclopedic then why's there a section of "Personal life" and why's every actor's dating history mentioned in their page? First go and remove that. - Pranay Dongre 27 (talk) 05:06, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

The existence of other things in Wikipedia articles that aren't guideline-compliant does not mean when someone reverts you based on guidelines that they are in the wrong. Many other people make the same mistake as you, in that they think we're the entertainment press and so have to include every report of anyone dating anyone else.

We don't and we shouldn't. We're not the news. Unless someone dating someone else leads to some other encyclopedia-notable occurrence (children, joint business ventures, abuse, restraining orders, etc.), then just the fact that someone is knocking boots with someone else is 100% not encyclopedia content. —Joeyconnick (talk) 20:24, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

Bus line edits

Just to clear up some stuff about the bus line edits:

Regarding the "average" lengths, I may have misinterpreted the meaning of the "Average Route Length" field in the TSPR while updating the ridership/lengths to 2023 data. I don't quite remember in what specific way I had interpreted it, but after rereading the description I do agree that changing most of them to using the GTFS data was probably unnecessary. I do remember making those changes after noticing that the "average route length" of the R5 as provided in the 2023 report (12.5 km) seems far shorter than the distance from SFU to Downtown, but it seems the length in the 2018 report remains accurate. (Though for R6 Scott Rd, the only source I could find for route length was in the GTFS data, since the 2024 TSPR is not out yet.)

For the 99 B-Line route lengths, I simply took the lengths from the GTFS data (specifically from shapes.txt). After some more inspection, I now realize the differing lengths in that file come from the fact that the distance travelled within bus exchanges is included in the westbound route but not the eastbound, so I suppose the difference doesn't exactly matter.

Neondev1 (talk) 20:03, 20 September 2024 (UTC)