User talk:Dr.Fungia

Welcome to WikiProject Trains
Hello and welcome to the Trains WikiProject! Thank you jumping right in there making improvements and I encourage you to add your name to our project membership list. Our goal is to build the most comprehensive and detailed guide to rail transport on Wikipedia. As a project member, you may add the project membership userbox to your user page if you wish.

If you haven't done so already, please add our main project page to your watchlist and take some time to review the Trains project manual of style where we have collected guidelines and suggestions on notability and style for a consistent representation of rail transport related material. If you're curious about where to start, we've gathered a few suggestions in the Trains project to do list. If you'd like to specialize in a particular area of study within rail transport, take a look at the current Trains project task forces.

I've noticed you are editing Locomotive to include wheel arrangements. Thats great! Thanks for making improvements where you feel they need to be made. However, before you go too far, I wanted to let you know (if you didn't already) there is an existing article called Whyte notation as well as UIC classification and AAR wheel arrangement which discuss these topics in detail. I don't want to discourage you from contributing, but I also don't want you disappointed to find out later someone beat you to it. You may want to keep your entry in Locomotive as a short refresher and refer to the other articles as a main article. And of course you are always welcome to make improvements to those articles as well! I personally like your idea of using strike through to better define the connecting rods on the drive wheels. Also; signing you name to an articles main page is not needed, however you should always sign comments on talk pages.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask any of the participants on the project talk page or on my talk page. Again, welcome and happy editing! -- DP 67  (talk/contribs) 07:12, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Locomotive
The stuff you added to the Locomotive article added, already exists in the Wheel arrangement and AAR wheel arrangement / UIC classification / Whyte notation pages. Putting it into the main article clogs things up too much, so I have rewritten it as a short section and links instead. Wongm (talk) 09:11, 16 December 2007 (UTC)