Have you ever looked up Park Slope on Wikipedia? I have. It's a fairly generic description of our neighborhood with some good local history. It includes sections like: early history, 19th century development, baseball, crash of United Flight 826, blight and renewal, etc. The first paragraph section like this.
Park Slope is roughly bounded by Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth
Avenue to the west, Park Place to the north and 15th Street to the
south, though other definitions are sometimes offered.[1][2] It takes its name from its location on the western slope of neighboring Prospect Park.
Seventh Avenue and Fifth Avenue are its primary commercial streets,
while its east-west side streets are populated by many historic brownstones.
Park Slope is characterized by its historic buildings, top-rated restaurants, bars, and shops, as well as close access to Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, and the Central Library (as well as the Park Slope branch) of the Brooklyn Public Library system. [3]
The neighborhood had a population of about 62,200 as of the 2000 census,[4] resulting in a population density of approximately 68,000/square mile, or approximately 26,000/square kilometer.
In December 2006, Natural Home magazine named Park Slope one
of America's ten best neighborhoods based on criteria including parks,
green spaces and neighborhood gathering spaces; farmer’s markets and
community gardens; public transportation and locally-owned businesses;
and environmental and social policy.[5] Park Slope is part of Brooklyn Community Board 6.
But today a tipster wrote in to say that he's been following a bizarre "revert war" going on over at the Park Wikipedia article for the past week, and he thought OTBKB readers should know about it. Some guy keeps putting this bit of self-promotion:
"'''Jonatan Ramos Baizan'''" or as he likes to be called "[[Junior]]"
is the next big thing comming up in the media industry and is also a
resident of the streets of [[Park Slope]]. He is known as "'''The Talk
Of BK.'''"
Whoever this is is being
extremely persistent. I also find it interesting that this tipster follows what goes on at PS's Wiki site. I must ask him. So I did ask him and our tipster had this to say:
When you make a change to an article in Wikipedia, it offers to add the
article to your watchlist. It's just a matter of checking the box. I
don't remember ever editing the Park Slope article but I must have at
some point. I look at the watchlist maybe once a day to see what's
going on.
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