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Consultation about reference in deleted page
Hi, I wonder if you could give me some advise. I am searching for a reference (to add in the Wikipedia article on MIR, "reference needed") that I have seen before in the article "Marcello Ferrada de Noli", now deleted. First, Is there any possibility to retrieve from the archived article the references containing the word "Concepción"? 2] When I clicked on Ferrada de Noli's name, which has links embedded in the MIR article, I was directed to a page headed "Creating M ferrada de N", and also a link to this talk page. My consultation being, was the deletion because of consensus, because of the information given by the delete-voters, or because the writing, etc? That article had in any case an excessive long text, some non-essential information, too. And references not updated. I thank you in advance. Patoleman (talk) 23:09, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
 * . Hello and good evening. I'm afraid that I'm not quite sure what you're asking of me. I deleted the article Marcello Ferrada de Noli because I saw a clear consensus to do so at Articles for deletion/Marcello Ferrada de Noli. Best, Mackensen (talk) 03:19, 5 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Good morning. Thank you for your reply on why the article was deleted, and for the link. Regarding the reference that I mentioned, I have found it now in other Wikipedia article. Best regards, Patoleman (talk) 09:03, 5 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for M-K TE70-4S
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M-K TE70-4S
The article says that the locomotives were retired in 1987, but what happened to them? If scrapped, this should be in the article and infobox. Mjroots (talk) 10:07, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * According to Lustig's article they somehow wound up on a deadline in Oakland, CA. Ozark Mountain Railcar owned them and listed them for sale. It's not very firm and I haven't got anything past that, so I left at the 1987 retirement. Mackensen (talk) 12:00, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Forum chatter says a tugboat company or some such thought about reusing the prime movers, but nothing came of it and they were scrapped in 2007. There's nothing reliable that I can find. Mackensen (talk) 12:10, 6 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank for that. Agree with keeping to RSs. Forums can be helpful in finding them, but are not useable themselves. Mjroots (talk) 13:03, 6 May 2017 (UTC)

Marcello Ferrada de Noli
Administrator Mackensen, Hello. I created the article "Marcello Ferrada de Noli" in 2009, which you deleted 3 May 2017 after seeing the discussion. As you may recall, the principal objection to "the main claim to notability", as it was referred in the discussion, was that Ferrada de Noli had never been a founder of the Revolutionary Left Movement (Chile) (MIR). However, I have now obtained NEW evidence which prove false that main argument. It is an important testimony dated 8 May 2017 issued by Andrés Pascal Allende, nephew of the late President Salvador Allende and ex General Secretary of the MIR, stating: "Marcello Ferrada de Noli was one of the founders of MIR", adding that he was a co-author of the "Political-Military Thesis", "the first document approved in the history of the MIR". Andres Pascal's testimony was published three days ago by the organization Swedish Doctors for Human Rights, together with a number of other secondary sources not before cited in the WP article, and neither in the discussion. I would like to ask you if you would consider to review your decision and undelete. If I understood right, it would be possible to ask WP for a revision, in the case of new evidence. If I would be granted the possibility, I will rewrite the article completely, both attending to the WP rules and style guidelines for bio submissions (which at the time I created the article, eight years ago, I was not so familiar with), and relevant criticism arouse in the discussion. Brgds. / Inkerifi (talk) 00:34, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello. You have a couple options available to you. First, I think I assessed the discussion correctly based on the evidence available at the time, so I'm not going to reverse myself. Given Marcello Ferrada de Noli's role in founding SWEDHR, I don't think a primary document published there would have influenced the outcome. You're welcome to seek deletion review of course. Another option would be to write a new article in the draft namespace, or perhaps in your own userpace, and then seek permission at DRV to move it back into the article space. This new article would need to incorporate these new secondary sources and make a stronger case for his notability. All the best, Mackensen (talk) 01:14, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank You, very helpful. I will study both options carefully before to proceed. In case I would try Deletion Review, it will be argued on the new evidence known after the time of your decision. And there is more evidence besides Pascal Allende's testimony. The other option is also tenable, since I was planning anyway to draft the article anew. With brgds, Inkerifi (talk) 02:00, 12 May 2017 (UTC)

DYK for Pendulum car
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DYK for PRR MP70
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DYK
Hello! Your submission of Superliner (railcar) at the Did You Know nominations page has been reviewed, and some issues with it may need to be clarified. Please review the comment(s) underneath your nomination's entry and respond there as soon as possible. Thank you for contributing to Did You Know! North America1000 20:54, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Just the standard template message here; just waiting for a QPQ to be performed. North America1000 20:54, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Would you be willing to perform a full review at Template:Did you know nominations/R v Jordan (2016). Essentially, most of the reviewing was performed by another user, so yours is not a full review, and there were objections earlier in the discussion. North America1000 21:43, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. It's short, but similar to most legal stubs. Mackensen (talk) 21:50, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Collapsible s-rail
I recall you mentioning that you did some early work on the s-rail templates, so you might have a quick fix for this. A number of infoboxes have a huge number of s-rail rows that I would consider secondary - either services at a connected station, or routes that formerly served a still-active station. (All the Embarcadero connections at Transbay Transit Center made me think about this.) Would there be any easy way to make a block of s-rail rows collapsible (and presumably collapsed by default)? Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:03, 1 July 2017 (UTC) to reply to me 12:59, 1 July 2017 (UTC) to reply to me 09:40, 2 July 2017 (UTC)
 * My instinct is that there isn't, because there's no real relationship between the individual rows. What could be done is a fork of that's compatible with the s-rail templates, and build that into . Mackensen (talk) 11:52, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * The infobox subheader can be toggled to be collapsible (check the template documentation). I don't think collapsing the whole table would be as good, as then only the first header would be shown. Jc86035 (talk) Use &#123;&#123;re&#124;Jc86035&#125;&#125;
 * Yeah, my thought was more along the lines of the collapsible BS templates, where an arbitrary section of rows can be collapsed. I have no idea if that's remotely possible in this case. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 18:21, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * Those nest tables inside tables (bad for accessibility), and it's quite fiddly because it's hard to get the columns to line up with each other. It's probably possible through JavaScript to implement collapsible subheaders, but I don't know if the WMF would do that.
 * , do you think it's possible to implement collapsible table rows (wherein all rows below the one with a CSS class are collapsed until a row containing cells or with some other CSS class), so that bits of a table can be collapsed? Especially in infoboxes (station, rail line, locomotive) and RDTs there are quite a few nested collapsible tables being used with fake subheaders, which is bad for accessibility. Jc86035 (talk) Use &#123;&#123;re&#124;Jc86035&#125;&#125;

Your GA nomination of Amfleet
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User:Scott19982
Could you please take another look at Scott19982? He has gone from merely annoying to outright destructive, and his messages on my talk page indicate that he has no intention of listening to my explanations of why his edits are incorrect. He has started adding incorrect dates - and changing correct dates to incorrect ones; see for example Kingston/Route 3 (MBTA station) where he added a closure date 48 years before the branch was built, and Taunton (Amtrak station) where he keeps changing the 1958 closure date to the incorrect 1959. Whether or not he's actually editing in good faith any more, I think he's doing more harm than good, and I don't see how he can be redirected to do good. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:19, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of City of Denver (train)
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DYK for Superliner (railcar)
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A barnstar for you!

 * Thank you, that's most kind of you! For my part, I enjoyed writing it, though probably not as much as I enjoy riding in the actual cars :). Mackensen (talk) 13:55, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

DYK nomination of Matt Luke (American football)
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DYK for Amfleet
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DYK for Matt Luke (American football)
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Talkback
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DYK for GE E60
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DYK for EMD SDP40F
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Thanks
Thank You for putting in the image of the EMD F69PHAC. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cloudcityline1017 (talk • contribs) 13:39, 3 November 2017 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Metrolink web
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If you find yourself driving in Southern Indiana...
...you may want to check this out. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:55, 18 November 2017 (UTC)


 * The famed Indiana RTG! I have to imagine the property owner's tired of railfans staking out his yard. Mackensen (talk) 02:02, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

To delete: Jordan Chariton
Hi there, I saw your name on the deletion page for Jordan Chariton and wanted to alert you that the article has not been deleted. I'm an infrequent user, so no need to respond here but if there is someone who could do that, now would be good. He was just fired from his post at the Young Turks due to sexual allegations, which will likely be added to the page shortly. With only one paragraph, the page would have POV issues in no time. Thank you,   petrarchan47  คุ  ก   02:22, 21 November 2017 (UTC)

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Your GA nomination of Elizabeth Peer
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Deletion discussion about Spokane Daily Chronicle
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DYK for EMD AEM-7
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Image sizing
Hello! I'm interested in this edit you made to the Viewliner article. Are all images in the lead of all articles supposed to be 300 pixels? I know many articles that have lead images larger than this. I thought the image_upright parameter was preferred, as it respects the reader's preferences, per MOS:IMGSIZE. It says lead images should use upright=1.35 at most, and under the section about only using pixels when absolutely necessary, that says no more than 300px for lead images. The part I'm confused about is the table under it, which states that image_upright=1.35 should be the same as imagesize=300px. Am I reading that incorrectly? WP:IMGSIZE seems to say the same thing.–Daybeers (talk) 14:34, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Well, sorry about that! Turns out I was confused about my thumbnail size preference, and I think I still am. It was on 300px, and I think I like how that looks, but now I feel it might get confusing if I'm trying to format a page with images on it, as I might not be seeing what others would see. What do you have yours set at? –Daybeers (talk) 15:50, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I use 220px, which I think is the default, or at least used to be. Mackensen (talk) 17:04, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

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Another Daily Mail RfC
There is an RfC at Talk:Daily Mail. Your input would be most helpful. --Guy Macon (talk) 12:26, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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Type parameter in infobox station
This is probably a dangerous can of worms to open, but I see you've been adding the type parameter to infobox station. I think it's an exceptionally silly parameter to have - it either describes the operating company (duplicative of s-rail) or the type of services (duplicative of the very first line of the lede). Either way, it doesn't really add much of anything, but takes up space at the very top of the infobox (i.e, where the most important information should go), and makes it longer as well. (I also think it ruins the visual look of the nicely styled headers, which I feel should have the image directly below them, but that's a side point.) Hence, I've been removing it anytime I've been doing any work on the infobox or lede of an article. But, I want to get your opinions before we start conflicting. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:53, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * I think there's a lot to be said for getting rid of it, for the reasons you suggest. My goal has been to depopulate Category:Articles using Infobox station with images inside type, Category:Articles using Infobox station with links or images inside name, and related categories. I'm going about it in what I hope is a content-neutral way: moving images and such into the symbol parameters and out of the name and type fields. Since I'm already batch-editing it makes sense to me to standardize the field, but I wouldn't be sorry to see it deprecated. Mackensen (talk) 00:27, 23 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Ah, that's good to know that we're not in total opposition. I've started a thread here. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 04:03, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

April 2018 Milhist Backlog Drive
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Re: LVRR templates
Sorry. I'm trying to set it up so Camden Station in Baltimore isn't the linked station, which it isn't. Mitch 32 (My ambition is to hit .400 and talk 1.000.) 21:40, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Understood. The template's designed with that possibility; I tweaked your entry. Mackensen (talk) 22:28, 30 April 2018 (UTC)