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The result: TITANOSAURUS 05:33, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your edits to Church Avenue Line (surface)

Thanks for your contribution, but your change of "Ninth" to "9th" is not correct. Here is a more detailed explanation:

A very long time ago, it was decided to use "First," "Second," etc., in the names of subway stations for avenues and small-numbered streets. Other Wikipedia articles about New York City follow this convention too: for instance, Ninth Avenue (Manhattan). This convention was consistently implemented throughout the encyclopedia. It's a long-standing and widely-accepted consensus.

I sincerely hope you would agree that it makes no sense to change one link in one article, when all the other links, in all the other articles, remain unaltered. Why use "9th" in this article, unless it is done in every other article? And if "Ninth" should be changed to 9th, then Eighth should become 8th, Seventh should be 7th, and so forth. You will quickly discover that it becomes a re-naming project on a vast scale, involving hundreds, and perhaps thousands of articles.

Had I been here at the time, I might well have argued for doing it your way. But I doubt you could get consensus at this late date for changing something so heavily ingrained. If you'd like to try, feel free to post a discussion topic at WT:NYCPT or WT:NYC. Marc Shepherd 17:04, 1 September 2007 (UTC)