User talk:Bsheppard

Welcome!

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Thanks. Bsheppard 07:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks[edit]

...for the thanks on the bot page. I haven't done anything yet, but I'm sure they'll approve the request pretty soon. I just checked over your userpage. I can't believe you're studying medicine... and law. Wow. That's impressive. I noticed that you lived in New York City for a while. If you're interested, the New York City Subway wikiproject is always looking for a few good contributors. (/off the soapbox).

Regards, alphaChimp ^laudare 01:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah. The things NYCS has done are wild. Before I got here, they wrote an article for every single subway station. We've got an article for each of the bus depots, and we're crossreferencing the two (that's actually my pet project). alphaChimp ^laudare 01:57, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I was very surprised at how much information they've managed to compile on the bus depots and train shops. I have a bunch of friends that work at the NYCTA either as bus operators (they're not drivers, heh), dispatchers, train operators, conductors, etc). The intricacies (sp?) of the unions is interesting. The TWU is the mega union, but it's not the only one... Amalgamated Transit Union is also partially responsible for representing some of the transit workers... anywho.. details, details. Bsheppard 02:05, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Definitely. Local 100 is amazing in their influence across the depots and their absolute control (consider that the largest depot is named after MJ Quill). There seems to be a lot of tension between the union and non union guys at the ta, but I imagine that that's typical. I don't know that much about the Amalgamated Union, actually you're the first person to mention it to me. alphaChimp ^laudare 03:46, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Style Manuals[edit]

I saw your posting to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) where you mentioned the AP and New York Times style manuals. I've generally used the Chicago and APA style manuals, and I found them unhelpful in two areas:

When writing a type of document where footnotes and bibliographies are either impossible or not traditional (for example, newspaper stories) are there any standards for citing sources?
When writing in a format where neither italics nor underlining is possible, what is the appropriate way to mark the title of a book or journal?

Do you know of the AP or New York Times manuals address these issues? --Gerry Ashton 18:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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