Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-24894325-20160823233355/@comment-24894325-20160824080717

Thank you for the encouragements and clarifications. It is exactly for connecting such bits of knowledge that I want to wikify the information in the map. Maybe some day the Metro[politan] Museum of Art will appear in a story, and this map will help determine it is on the Fifth Avenue. If I may, I have two slightly technical questions regarding the real world bleed.

Sometimes the information on the map is only half legible, but I can still read it. I have a suspicion though that someone not familiar with New York, who doesn't know what should be there, might not be able to decipher the same caption. In such cases, I don't think these objects should be entered because I am using real-world knowledge to read them properly.

Secondly, abbreviated names. For example, the map has "E. 79th St." Should the page be named "East 79th Street", "E. 79th Street" or "E. 79th St."? Myself, I tend to "E. 79th Street" because "St." is a very common abbreviation for "street" and streets are expected on a map. But "E." for East is a bit of a local knowledge. I could justify this small leap by the "Upper East Side" present, and the area being to the east on the map, and there being W. St. on the same map. But it is still a bit of a guess. On the other hand, having these names start with "E." instead of "East" would prevent 10 such streets from showing up every time somebody searches for "East ...". So which of the three names should be used?