User talk:Dudleybus/2008

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Your possible recent edits to WikiProject Userboxes/Members
Hi, reverted your possible recent edit to the members page of WikiProject Userboxes. Your name was added as a member on that page by an anonymous IP. If that was you, then you must be logged in to add yourself. If this was the case, then please login and resign yourself. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience.  U z E E  01:23, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Page moves
While I realise that we all make mistakes sometimes, can I ask you to maybe take more care next time you do a page move. Travel Dundee was for some reason moved to National Express Dundee2 (why the 2?). You then tried to correct this, but you moved National Express Dundee2 to National Express Dundeee (with one too many "e"s). I tried to correct this myself my moving it to National Express Dundee, but for some reason that page existed, it was just empty. As a result, I have had to request a administrator to resolve the problem! As I said, we all make mistakes, but can you please try to be more careful next time!! -- Arriva436 (talk) 12:52, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Requests for adminship/Tombrant407
I have noticed the above page has been created by User:Kentish121. Quite apart from the fact that you haven't been around long enough and don't have nearly enough experience to have a hope in hell of becoming an administrator, there is a much more serious matter.

From the various page moves, and mutual editing of pages, it appears that you and User:Kentish121 are actually the same person (formerly User:Webmaster 1stwordsley).

Wikipedia takes a dim view of sockpuppetry (running more that one account with an intent to deceive), all the more so in RfA cases.

Might I suggest that you take this page to MfD immediately Mayalld (talk) 15:15, 14 February 2008 (UTC)


 * I have responded to your message on my talkpage Mayalld (talk) 11:15, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Adoption Offer
I see you are looking for someone to adopt you. If you still are, I'm a very experienced user willing to adopt you. Please leave a message on my talk page, if you would like to be adopted. Thanks! -  Milk's   Favorite   Cookie  18:30, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

Image:997 IN NEW COULORS.JPG listed for deletion
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Your VandalProof Application
Thank you for your interest in VandalProof, Tombrant407. As you may know, VP is a very powerful program, and in fact the just released 1.3 version has even more power. Because of this we must uphold strict protocols before approving a new applicant. Regretfully, I have chosen to decline your application at this time. The reason for this is that:

You do not yet have enough experience either fighting vandals on Wikipedia, or simply editing. We generally ask for over 250 mainspace edits, and some examples of vandalfighting.

Please note it is nothing personal by any means, and we certainly welcome you to apply again soon. Thank again for your interest in VandalProof. A le_Jrb talk 19:28, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

UK Transport Wiki
I have seen your message about this and I would be interested in joining. I think it is a very good idea! However, I've been on holiday for while, and will have to clear my sort of "Wikipedia backlog" before I do anything else! Arriva436 talk 09:28, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

AWB
I'm having some trouble working out why you nominated User:Kentish121 to receive use of this tool. S/he has nowhere near enough mainspace edits to qualify, and I've therefore declined the application.-- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 19:58, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah, I thought there was something like that behind it. Would you care to reapply with this username and I'll take a look at it? Thanks. -- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 22:06, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for doing that, but your own mainspace contributions are a little short. Cold you post some justification for needing AWB? Thanks, & sorry to be a pain. -- Rodhullandemu  (Talk) 22:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

UK Transport Wiki Template
I'm becoming concerned with the inlining of the UK Transport Wiki boxes, which are being embedded into the main article of some pages such as National Express West Midlands. Unless a reference, external links are to be only added to the bottom of the page, in the references or external links section. Other interwiki boxes such as those of Wiktionary and Wikimedia Commons only add their infoboxes at the bottom. Lastly, WP:ELNO advises Wikis not to be included as external links.

I've removed all but one of the boxes on pages containing more than one box, as I feel it's unnecessary clutter and does not contribute to the article. Please also note that Wikipedia uses the Nofollow attribute on external links, which does not improve search engine ranks. JameiLei (talk) 10:05, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Re: UK Transport Wiki
Sorry, but I won't be joining; I'm more than tied up here, and won't have time to effectively duplicate my contributions elsewhere, and I think getting the UK transport articles here up to scratch is far more important at this stage than what's essentially a content-fork - quite aside from the GFDL nightmares of posting the same content on two different wikis. Incidentally, rather than posting to every individual user you'd probably be better off posting at WT:RAIL, WT:TUK, WT:LT etc. Good luck with it, though... —  iride  scent  15:52, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Same here. I don't have the time to contribute to an additional wiki, seeing as I'm barely on Wikipedia that much these days. — sonicKAI (talk) 22:15, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

Wiki pages
Please note that similar to yours there is already Train Spotting World which has already been set up. But there is nothing wrong with 2, i think.

Btw, why do you have User:Tombrant407 redirecting here, when the user is not registered? Simply south (talk) 10:58, 4 June 2008 (UTC)


 * I came here to mention TSW as well, but SimplySouth got in first!
 * Having been involved with TSW from near the start I can sympathise with your desire for extra contributors. I have noted there that you need a considerable number of highly active editors before the Wiki starts to take any sort of useful shape. If those editors have been 'poached' (or, shall we say more nicely, 'borrowed') from Wikipedia you may well find that they drift back after a while, for the reasons listed by Iridescent. I spend very little time at TSW these days, partly because very few other people visit there either. Also, I have limited online time available, and I feel that my efforts are better spent here.
 * Good luck with your Wiki, but remember it's not the only one around, and you are in serious competition for people's time.
 * EdJogg (talk) 12:39, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free media (Image:Premier 997 Map.png)
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Redirect of National Express West Midlands Bus Route 705
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National Express West Midlands route 283
Please refrain from introducing inappropriate pages to Wikipedia. Doing so is not in accordance with our policies. For more information about creating articles, you may want to read Your first article. If you would like to experiment, please use the sandbox. There are wikis for this sort of thing; Wikipedia is not one of them. -- Orange Mike  &#x007C;   Talk  16:24, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
 * the article was undeleted and prodded after Deletion Review--if you work on it, feel free to remove the prod tag yourself--its not like a speedy tag. But be aware that it will almost certainly be sent to afd without some supporting 3rd party independent reliable published sources, print or online (but not blogs or press releases), and probably even then. It has sometimes been possible to rescue bus route articles by explicit evidence of their significance to the communities served. DGG (talk) 12:48, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

Hey!!!
This is User:Tm93. I noticed your quote was from the bible. That's good. At least you have your head on straight. That is the greatest book ever written. Drop me a line at Tm93 (talk) 08:15, 20 June 2008 (UTC).

Civility
I won't give you the indignity of "templating" you with the standard warning on no personal attacks and maintaining a minimum threshold of civility, but, with reference to your exchanges with User:Richard Harvey (a very courteous and experienced editor IMHO), I would insist that you revisit the aforementioned policies. I'm not too interested in the detail of content dispute as such, but shouting and making threats will lead to you having restrictions placed upon your editting capabilities, I can assure you. Remember, we're all here for more-or-less the same reason; to write and give away a free and near-perfect encyclopedia. Sure we all get frustrated, but the changes you seek are unlikely to be facilitated by being abusive. Stay calm and cool, work with others, not against, please. --Jza84 | Talk  19:35, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

User:Dudleybus/Template:Utw
Hi there. I've pasted over with a template from  which does not describe it as "the number 1 [...]", as advertising Wikia projects is not the intention of these templates. The reason I'm notifying you is because you created Template:utw as a redirect to User:Dudleybus/Template:Utw - this is generally bad form as mainspace pages should not use templates in userspace - userspace is kept separate from the encyclopedia. x42bn6 Talk Mess 22:23, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

National Express West Midlands Scania Omnilinks
In regard to the 60x National Express West Midlands Scania Omnilinks due later this year. The following is what I have heard is happening ... This still could dramatically change though, its a case of waiting and seeing. Sorry is this disappoints you ;-) BUT apparently another 60x are on order for 2009. Curran1980 (talk) 15:41, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Walsall routes 301, 311 and 313 = about 25 buses
 * West Bromwich routes 404 and 404A = about 15 buses
 * Coventry routes 20, 30A, 30C, 40, 50 and 60 = about 15 buses
 * Pensnett unknown route(s) = about 5 buses


 * Thanks for your response, I have been given an UPDATE today which is : NXWM are now only having 30x Omnilinks for this year, 15 at Coventry and 15 at West Bromwich .... to get "one up" on competitors Stagecoach and "Red" Diamond. HOWEVER the new 404/404A schedule now needs about 19 vehicles, so it looks like nobody really knows whats happening. I will be removing the unreferenced future allocations on the Wikipedia articles and hope nobody posts it again unless there is a solid reference. Curran1980 (talk) 16:26, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Re: National Express West Midlands Line 33
Thanks for telling me about this, as I hadn't realised and thought it was a horrible americanisation. I have been thinking about it, and surely if "Line 33" is such a strong brand, then the article should be called something like "Line 33 (National Express West Midlands route)"? I moved it to keep it in line with the standard routes, after all it's not a "Premier route" is it? Another reason I moved it was that it said the link to the UK Transport Wiki was "National Express West Midlands route 33", although I have just discovered this is incorrect. Arriva436talk 17:28, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

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Copyright problems with File:Travel West Midlands Route 236.jpg
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However, for textual content, you may simply consider rewriting the content in your own words. Thank you. Arriva436talk</b>/<b style="color:#800080;">contribs</b> 18:06, 31 December 2008 (UTC)