(Born November 1, 1965 in Gloversville, New York) Frank Goebel lives in Troy, New York. Previously, he lived in Guilderland and Clifton Park.
Frank has many interests. He is a Jaycee, a bowler, bowling coach, bowling league secretary, as well as a road enthusiast. On wikipedia, he has recently discovered and has contributed to the New York State Routes Wiki Project.
Education
Graduating from Broadalbin Central in 1983, Frank received an A.A.S. degree in Visual Communications from Fulton-Montgomery Community College in 1985 as well as a B.S. degree in Trade Subjects Education from SUNY College at Oswego. He also received an M.S. degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University at Albany in 1992.
Wikipedia Contributions
Some of the contributions are:
New route articles added
The following New York State Routes were placed on the site. Those without shields are ones hopefully added soon:
Route articles modified
This list is only for those routes where I made some substantial change to the content. If I just changed the intersection template to the NYint format, they won't be listed here. There are just too many of them. But for the below, I made the changes because I know something in addition to, or in correction of, what was already there.
Note the listing above is incomplete. Also, it's not put up here to brag, just to let others know what I've done here (and what I'd like to do). Many have done far more than I; in fact, I am not responsible for any of the images (including the state route shields). Anyone is welcome to visit any of those routes’ articles and comment. As for placing new route articles into operation: So far, I've driven every highway in its entirety beforehand. I suppose I could add historical NY 99, although I didn't take notes (but I remember it well).
What's next
A number of modifications or new article adds I made were done in not the most appropriate manner - specifically, I used a "noacess" tag when two routes entered a municipality without intersecting (but streets or at least a reference route was used linking the two. User:TwinsMetsFan kind enough to not only describe the technique, but actually display it for everyone to see how to place a "To" banner over a route sign. I fixed one of them, now I need to get to the others.Completed November 27, 2006.
I put in a couple of decommissioned routes and when they intersected existing highways, I put "?.??" or "#.##" for the mileage. I'm either going to eliminate completely (if the decomissioned route was absorbed completely into a new route, such as NY 339/Saratoga County 339, or actually get the appropriate mileage and insert it. Google Earth will be my way of determining that.Completed November 27, 2006.
Speaking of the above, I created NY 339 as a decommissioned route. I later saw that it, being completely absorbed into a new route (Saratoga County with the same number), shouldn't go up under the New York route number. So I will create the Saratoga County Route for that name, indicate how it was once the New York route, and for now leave the county route shield missing (I don't think it exists yet, but I think I know who can create it). Then, I'll redirect the article I wrote to that. I hope I can pull that one off without taking a ton of time.Don't need to do it, User:TwinsMetsFan took care of it (thank you). I just had to provide a mile marker.
- Later, I'll pick one or more highways, as a group or individual, and go out and drive them to create their articles.
The standard junction template for New York State Highways is "NYint" and it allows for counties and locales to have multiple junctions listed to the right of them in a nice chart. The simpler "NYSRInt" has county banners but requires a separate line for each junction, so a locale has to be listed multiple times. I used that format on the first (NY 30A) article that I did, and I've used it for a few others I did. I need to fix them and bring them all the same. Maybe after that I'll visit other articles and re-work them.Done 11/27, and it took far less time than I expected. Once I copied the top tags, it was easy to note the cspan and lspan, to change "town" to "location", and otherwise cleaned up things a bit on those articles. Every NYS highway article I've created now uses this template. And now, I've changed all of the other NYS route articles that I've see to use the old template, reworking them to the NYint template. Their "To-Do" list is now done.
Look through the NYS Route articles and re-work entries such as 
File:NYS Thruway Sign.gif I-90/Thruway so they all look like that: On the same line. Some have them on separate lines. The same applies to NY 17 and I-86. Done. Yet, some entries of I-190 might also need Thruway shields added as not all of them include it.I asked, and was told that not all of I-190 is Thruway, so the articles will stand as they are.
A philosophy on editing
It’s pretty simple: I’m not bothered to find out that something I created, or changed, was modified by someone else. I put it this way: While I did take some time to do a little research, thought, consideration, and keystrokes into putting together an article (even if I know it’s not complete), I consider it a compliment when it’s altered. Someone else thought that much of what I did that they took the time to make it better. And that’s the approach I take when I a modification of something that’s already there. It’s the same when I take something good I see out there and use that as a basis for something I create: It’s excellence being replicated.
Vandalism notwithstanding. of course.
Userboxes
NY 30A
NY 154
NY 351
NY 339
NY 146A
NY 103
NY 203
NY 158
NY 159
NY 161
NY 145
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NY 156
NY 85A
NY 140
NY 157
NY 157A
NY 349
NY 10A
NY 331
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NY 171
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NY 170A
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NY 395
NY 406
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NY 29A
NY 23B
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NY 337
NY 309
NY 125
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