User talk:Phil2580

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December 2014
Hello, I'm Redrose64. I noticed that you made a change to an article, London Midland, but you didn't provide a reliable source. If you'd like to include a citation, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. -- Red rose64 (talk) 11:57, 31 December 2014 (UTC)


 * Hi Redrose64. I believe you are referring to the section regarding services being expressed on the Snow Hill and Cross City lines. Unfortunately, I cannot provide a "reliable" source, since this is an unpublished policy of London Midland, yet one that is implemented with alarming frequency. Last week alone, I was subjected to 2 services being expressed from Birmingham Snow Hill to Dorridge, and that was not an unusual week.


 * While I cannot provide a directly referable source, the information to support this is available from the Network Rail datafeed and realtimetrains.co.uk, however the latter is time-limited due to the amount of data it processes.
 * Thanks Phil2580 (talk) 12:16, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes, that is the text in question. The thing is, we have certain core content policies: these include that of verifiability - the first paragraph of that policy document says


 * Notice in particular the phrase "previously published information rather than the beliefs or experiences of its editors". What you could do is to look in the reliable railway press - such as The Railway Magazine or Modern Railways, or an established local newspaper like the Birmingham Post, to see if the matter of punctuality is covered there. -- Red rose64 (talk) 16:48, 31 December 2014 (UTC)

Accepted, and I'm happy to remove the paragraph in question, however I notice all of my amendments have now been rolled back, despite all of the information being from verifiable sources (and cited accordingly). Phil2580 (talk) 17:40, 1 January 2015 (UTC)