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July 25

Why didn't they number Bronx streets better?

If they skipped numbers when needed like they did in other parts of the city then East 243rd Street would be about 80 street numbers from the tip of Manhattan instead of 22. It'd be about 300th Street if the Manhattan grid went that far. And stuff like one side of a park is 242 and the other's 212 and the Manhattan grid would be c.255 if it went this far wouldn't happen. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 03:05, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The map indicates that the Bronx and Manhattan's numbers pretty well match up until you get a ways north of Yankee Stadium, and then they start going their separate ways. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 08:41, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Streets between boroughs are only partially or coincidentally congruous; there was some small effort made to align some of the streets (when planned) between Manhattan and the Bronx, then they kind of gave up. There is no concordance between those streets, however, and streets in the other boroughs. City of Greater New York covers some of this, and will lead you to other places. The street numbers in the Bronx that align with Manhattan were there as a result of the earlier annexation of part of West Bronx with New York; the main consolidation of the city (which also merged East Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island) was later. So the historic ordering goes: 1) New York annexes West Bronx 2) A unified street-numbering pattern is established covering just those parts 3) The other boroughs are annexed, and no further plans to line-up street plans are made. --Jayron 32 15:24, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The numbered streets at the lower end of Manhattan roughly correspond to the numbered streets in Brooklyn, for maybe about ten streets, and then they go their separate ways. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:22, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Brooklyn has multiple numbered street grids at disparate angles and counting directions, the one you mentioned, the West 37th to East 108th Street and Avenue A to Z grid, the 1st to 101st Street and 1st to 21st Avenue grid.. all in the contiguous part of Brooklyn. Mainland Queens is simpler with just 2nd to 271st Street and 2nd to 165th Avenue. They just skip or repeat numbers to make each number straighter. So horizontal blocks often go like 70th Avenue, 70th Road, 70th Drive, 71st Avenue, 71st Road, 71st Drive.. Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 17:38, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Google scholar misattributions

Has there been any work done to see how many papers are misattributed on Google scholar? And, what should one do if one finds a misattributed work? DuncanHill (talk) 16:32, 25 July 2018 (UTC) [reply]

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Do you have an example? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:33, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply] Yes, but let's not get sidetracked by that, I was asking a general question. DuncanHill (talk) 16:34, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply] Then the general answer would be, "Write to Google." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:37, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

This paper (see section 3.4) has some information on what can go wrong, with citations to some studies on GS reliability. Mikenorton (talk) 17:28, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(EC) This discussion on StackExchange [1] includes comments from a Google Scholar engineer who says, not surprisingly, to use their contact form to report errors [2]. The engineer also hints at, and others raised more clearly, another obvious point. If the error is not coming from them but from their data source, it makes more sense to have the error corrected there first. Nil Einne (talk) 17:32, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

In other words, "Write to Google." ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:26, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What is this "thing" ?

A silver "bowl" that a wine bottle is stood in, what it its proper name? It has a wooden base. Thanks Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:56, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dodger67: Wine bottle coasters seems to be that thing; cf. On sale here. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 19:01, 25 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's not entirely clear from the photograph, but if the 'bowl' has a cavity that can be filled with ice, so as to keep the wine cool, it would be a 'wine cooler': see Wine accessories. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.217.102.16 (talk) 10:02, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's clearly not deep enough to be a cooler, which would be as tall as the bottle up to its shoulder. This is a coaster, and is of both a different appearance and purpose. —SerialNumber54129^{paranoia /cheap sh*t room} 10:07, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Our Beverage coaster article doesn't stray much beyond beer mats - a challenge for somebody... Alansplodge (talk) 12:45, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The one in the photo is just over an inch deep, has a wood bottom and is only just a bit wider than the bottle. A small child's finger might fit in the gap, so no, it's definitely not for filling with ice. It's supposed to catch any drips to protect the tablecloth from stains. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 13:53, 26 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

There is a sub called whatisthisthing in Reddit, they find the answers for everything.

I have now added a brief note with a couple of refs to Beverage coaster#History, together with this image. Alansplodge (talk) 14:28, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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