User talk:RFBailey/Archive 2

lowexits
Thanks for your message. Hopefully this is clearer. Mrsteviec 09:22, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Laugh
I laughed when I read the comment on your user page. You are right. Some of the most pointless disputes have occurred over the most irrelevant minutiae. Ho hum. Mrsteviec 09:26, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

K (not OK}
And any other station pages, we thought that it might be a good idea to keep the Heritage Railway stations in. See Talk:UK railway stations - S. Please comment. Simply south 11:24, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

Rail Stations / images
Hi! I really only into the image side of things, putting in text mainly to start an article going, or beef one up a bit. My main interest is in getting and providing the images. I started by adding them to imageless articles, on the Penistone line by other editors, my knowledge of trains is not much more than that both ends have pointy bits so can go both ways. I try to stick to putting images on articles between 300px and a max of 500px, which is within the wikipedia image size guidlines of 550px. Having said that I note the one I took on the platform is set at 600px so I've reduced that to 500px. I won't revert your image placement but will look for something more appropriate. I understand that the Huddersfield Station Facade is regarded as one of the finest in the country, so feel it should be given a better position in the article to reflect that

I am able to view the images on various flat and cathode displays at varying resolutions, have you ever tried viewing a thumbnail at 1400x1054, so if one looks a little small on a text bare article I up the size a tad. I keep an eye on them so when the text becomes more informative I adjust them down accordingly.

I can see the reason for an image in the infobox but feel that is not a place for the station images. Would it not be better if the image in the infobox was confined to the particular rail management company who operated the station ? ie First, Metro, Virgin etc? which would be more consistent.

On a slightly different note read my talk page. Richard Harvey 19:34, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Another rail-related template
I see you have sucessfully created templates on all the stations for the West Midlands and Merseyside. I have attempted to try for the big one and go for London. Can you tell me what you think, sort out the template layout, reduce the size of the words of the stations etc? Also, do you think i should implement it?

Template:London railway stations

Just a note, the size of it IS rather worrying.

Simply south 19:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it could be split into N, E, S and W London?

Simply south 08:59, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Err... I am sort of following your advice so...

TfD nomination of Template:London railway stations
Template:London railway stations has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you.

Should i post this notice anywhere else? Simply south 22:43, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Should i mention this? I have a backup copy if it is ever needed again

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Simply south 16:46, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

West Yorks Rail Templates.
Well in for picking up the ball and running with it.

When have the chance will do other West Yorkshire stations following that template (with pictures if available).

Whohe!

Warwickshire Railways
Hi. Many thanks for your comments. I must admit I have only primarily been adding links to existing text, although in a few instances I have added a little description. I will follow your advice in future and also ensure I leave a message as to what action I have taken - apologies for not doing so before.

I note from your comments you are now thinking about not bothering about the railway aspect of the site. You are more than welcome to assist us on www.warwickshirerailways.com if you wish. Please contact me on mikemusson@hotmail.com if this interests you.

Regards

Mike

Greater Nottingham Partnership
A while back you asked me about the Greater Nottingham Partnership, I've had a go at starting a page about them. I've mainly taken it from their own page, but it needs more doing. Bevo74 19:57, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Ascot railway station
I can see your problem, and thanks for pointing it out to me: my description is misleading. There are four tracks through the station; with two island platforms between each set of Up and Down lines. In addition there are also platforms on the outside of the layout, so that the outermost tracks have a platform on each side. That makes six platform faces, not four as I said. The description I have was written some time ago, but I have no reason to doubt it: only half the station is in operation, that of the northern two platforms, the island and the outer platform (Platforms 1, 2 and 3). Does that help? Peter Shearan 06:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I still don't think the description is correct. See my comments at Talk:Ascot railway station. Cordless Larry 19:31, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Frimley railway station
I like what you did to the Frimley railway station article - great improvement. Euchiasmus 13:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Re: County edits
Ah, yes. I'm not sure how involved I'll be getting with the whole thing -- I'm just fresh out of a major content dispute at Libertarianism (granted, I walked into it via WP:3O). If you need an outside opinion on something, feel free to ask. Thanks for the message. :) Luna Santin 10:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Birmingham
perhaps I assume incorrectly that all of the districts of birmingham were accounted for because of the exsitence of the template. Generally these template create all of the districts first, the fill them in. Jon513 16:57, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Strines and Ambergate railway stations
Strines is not East Midlands surely? I'm not clear why Ambergate doesn't warrant a template to the UK stations list. Chevin 11:39, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Strines: Umm yes I found out since. I dosn't seem like the East Midlands, partcularly in regard to communications! Ambergate - I think you removed the UK Stations template by mistake, so I've put it back. However if I'm wrong feel free to revert it. Chevin 13:08, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
 * "the UK stations infobox, which now incorporates the A-Z links," Oh Right, so it does. Sorry. Also thanks for tidying my Tunstead disambig page. It's been as much as I could to find the place, but I wanted to get support for a correction I'm going to put on the James Brindley article. Chevin 14:17, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Not quite simultaneous English-to-English translation
"upmerge" per Stub types for deletion means "delete category, keep template", "parent" means, and "one the basis of size" means "too small" (Stub). Alai 17:24, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Pnatt
I am torn on semi-protecting the page. The edits are annoying, and an sprotect would remove it from the article. However, he just seems to move onto a different article whenever this happens. Before the MoS page, it was Cranbourne, Victoria, which is currently semi-protected. So, if his target is wide open, it is easy to spot him quickly. -- JamesTeterenko 22:27, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Slowly - UK metro sta cat
I was thinking of not only adding LU and DLR stations, but also Glasgow Subway stations and Tyne and Wear Metro stations. I suppose the category would get too big and point taken there are already categories to cover these.

So what should this category cover? Only the other sub-categories? Simply south 22:46, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

OK. Btw, should i include tramways as well or should that be in a seperate category? Simply south 22:53, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

I've just checked and the Tyne and Wear Metro does not have a general category for all stations as such but does have two for the Tyne and Wear Metro Green Line and the Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow Line stations. So should i include the Green Line stations and Yellow Line stations categories? If that is the case then i might have to also include Metropolitan Line stations category (for example) as well etc. What do you think? Simply south 23:06, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Would the new category be considered too small? Simply south 23:14, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well i've created the category anyway. We'll see how it goes. Simply south 23:20, 12 August 2006 (UTC)



Continuing
I just checked and most trains don't continue except for a few early morning/late evening trains. Some do continue but not many. Simply south 16:57, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

Template
Yes that is what I made it for. Only discussions I dont want to continue will be replaced with this template OK? Lenny 12:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What if I move it to somewhere like User:Unisouth/Personalboxes/Discussion closed ? Then people should realise it is for my use only. Also I could have each removed discussion have a page so people can still view it? Lenny 12:28, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes but its still archiving. I archive the page every 6 months, when them six months are up the remaining discussions and closed will move to another page. So its more like temporary archiving. Lenny 13:19, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * If they get confused then they will have to wait until december to read discussions, sorry. Lenny 14:04, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * MY system - clearly states that no-one else has to use it. So why are you bothered. Userpages also are not a encyclopedia article so it doesn't have to all be the same. Lenny 14:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * What do you think this is if it isn't a dispute? If you dont like 'em, dont start 'em. OK? Now shooo. Lenny 14:23, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Good job i am in a good mood today. Lenny 14:44, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry about that :( Lenny 15:13, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

WSMR
Okay it was rather. Should i remove them until further notice? A reason why i added them is that Grand Central have been added about half before they are due to start. Okay the WSMR is 10 months before they are due to start. Simply south 22:21, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Why not also suggest it to Hammersfan? Simply south 23:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I accept that it may be a bit premature, but given that WSMR do have a detailed route plan and timetable already, I think it's good to at least display this on the stations that the company proposes to use, as long as it is stated clearly (and I think big black letters under the company name is fairly clear :-P) that the service is only a proposal at present. Besides which, there seem to be a large number of people interested who will keep it up to date Hammersfan 10.00 BST, 26/10/06

templating edit summary
I've just really kept "attempting template" as a sort of signature edit summary. If it is causing too many problems i will switch to "implementing template" or should i do something else? Simply south 22:05, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

I suppose i will only do attempting template when i am unsure when inserting a new template i've created. I will probbably do "implementing template" elsewhere. Simply south 22:35, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

Counties: once more, with feeling
Sorry for jumping in before you, hope that my edit resulted in something in the same spirit as yours. If not, please go ahead with your version - I was looking for a simple way to quieten things down.

I think eventually the naming convention is going to have to be tightened to something completely prescriptive, because the current version makes pretty much everyone unhappy. One day this will al blow over and I can get on with what I originally joined WP to edit... Best wishes, Aquilina 22:22, 17 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I know what you mean; fortunately for my own sanity, I haven't had much time to spend on Wikipedia recently! --RFBailey 22:25, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Mossley
I thought you may be interested in this. Could set a standard which other users would want to role out elsewhere. Jhamez84 22:57, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Announcement
You might be interested in the recent addition to the page Waynflete Professorships! QuantumGroupie 10:53, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Hopefully
Hopefully we can get it back up to Featured Article quality (well, make it meet the new standards which require much referencing!) : I'm considering putting it on peer review in a few weeks (kind of wanted to test the water with Local Government Commission for England (1992) first.) Morwen - Talk 22:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. I should have started collecting citations long ago. There is such a wealth of writing on the subject and, fortunately, I am studying the history of local government at the moment. Mrsteviec 22:10, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Proposed change to UK stations infobox
See Template talk:Infobox UK station for my proposed way to standardise the formatting of stations that have names in more than one language (e.g. English and Welsh names). Thryduulf 22:34, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

British TOCs Template
I'd be grateful if you could give a yea or nay to my idea for updating the British TOCs template, which can be found here. Ta muchly Hammersfan 19/11/06, 19.25 GMT

Crossrail route boxes
Ordinarily I would agree with your position, except that I don't see much difference between Crossrail and WSMR, aside from WSMR starting a lot sooner. Crossrail has a clearly defined route, a clearly defined service pattern, and is still due to be built. In my opinion (and I've said this to MRSC too), until such time as a statement is released to say "Crossrail will absolutely not be built", I think it is acceptable to have the route listed on each station, provided that "Proposed" is included in big black letters (see . Hammersfan 13/03/07, 22.50 GMT

Western Districts League
From Word-Acorn the reason I put figment of my imagination was so that people would not belive it was real life.
 * (moved from User:RFBailey; left there by User:Word-Acorn, 01:14 14 March 2007)

From Word-Acorn if your ever in the Black Country I`d be happy to show you some of very own brand of "HOSPITAL"ality.

Thank you
Thank you for stepping in with the fire extinguisher. I was at the point where had this escalated I would have brought in a third party anyway (and may still have to), so you've probably done this at just the right stage. Always nice when someone decides that I'm out to get them, since it generally means I'm doing something right. ;-) Chris cheese whine 02:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Iraq War
I see that on the Iraq War page you removed Queen Elizabeth II from the list of commanders. If Bush is listed, why not her? They are Her Majesty's troops. There is a place on the talk page where this has been discussed. Why not comment there instead of arbitrarily removing her name. Thanks malatesta 17:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

WSMR
I thought it needed a bit of a 'tidy up' to make sense of all the changes in recent months. Still needs a bit more work to be honest. Thanks for letting me know though! DrFrench 23:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Station codes, coordinates
You can now add three-letter codes and lat/long coordinates, to UK station articles. see Hamstead railway station for an example. Regards, Andy Mabbett 21:15, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Station information
Are the links to station information on National Rail working for you? Clicking on either the ones in the infobox or in stn art lnk don't seem to work. Maybe they have changed the website around? Adambro 08:59, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

UK stations
I'll keep an eye out. Generally the best idea is to get more feedback, e.g. by advertising at the village pump and WP:RFC.  &gt; R a d i a n t &lt;  09:18, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line
Whilst I'll agree with you that a very large proportion of these sevices start at Birmingham, it's inaccurate to suggest that the line itself starts there. When large numbers of services went to Walsall, it wasn't the Walsall-Shrewsbury Line. Additionally, other rail lines are not edited in this way, for example Rugby-Birmingham-Stafford doesn't have huge numbers of trains starting in Rugby and ending in Stafford; and the WCML isn't London - the North West and Scotland to take an extreme example. It also seems rather daft to me to click on a link saying "Birmingham to Shrewsbury" to be greeted with an article (accurately) named Wolverhampton to Shrewsbury Line.

Hope that explains the thinking behind my edits! Fingerpuppet 07:45, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Mock station signs
Sorry, I never compromise on quality. The images must go. Chris cheese whine 20:30, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Manchester Picadilly etc
Hi RFBailey. Thanks for your note. You did not confuse me, I was using tram in my conversation with you and I suddenly changed to metro elsewhere. So sorry about any confusion I may have caused. I remember Piccadilly and Victoria stations from the 1970s because I did my first degree at Salford 1973-1976 (I did my second degree there, 2000-2006, as well), but the metro was not there in the 70s. I went back for two days in 1993 and did Piccadilly Gardens to Bury and back, on the metro, just to try the service. I 2006 I did a Salford Quays to somewhere round Castlefields journey on the metro, to go round the museum of science and industry; I walked to the Ian Allen bookshop at Piccadilly and back to Salford. So that is the limit of what I have seen of the Manchester metro. I recognise the big changes over 30 years, but unfortunately I don't have detailed knowledge of the metro. Pyrotec 19:33, 4 April 2007 (UTC)

Discussion invitation
I've created a new discussion page at Template talk:West Midlands railway stations/Layout discussion in order to discuss which of the suggested layouts should be used for this template. Please feel free to voice your opinions. – Tivedshambo (talk) 08:17, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Jimmy Wales bans Irate
I see you had a view on this. Have you any idea where the original posts are filed? Thanks.--Shtove 23:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Stourbridge Town
Indeed. I'll get something sorted tomorrow when I go down there tomorrow. Thanks for reminding me :) Worley-d 20:35, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

Liverpool
Hi, I've left a response on Liverpool's talk page - Kneale 04:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Your user page
I reverted vandalism on it. ;) --Pupster21 Talk To Me 20:01, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Why, thank you! --RFBailey 20:06, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

Liverpool again...
Thanks for editing the Liverpool page, I will endeavour to not copy off other websites in the future - Kneale 18:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Disused Birkenhead railway stations
Hi there, I'm fairly new to all this extensive editing lark and was wondering if you could give me some feedback, re: some railway articles I've expanded upon. I'm concerned I've overdone the referencing, but underdone the number of varying sources (they're hard to find). Are my formatting and use of UK Rail Portal infoboxes and templates okay? (Particularly, when trying to link in with those railboxes used at the bottom of articles like Hooton railway station). If you can help with any comments please (however detailed), I'd be very grateful. Snowy 1973 23:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Birkenhead Woodside railway station
 * Birkenhead Town railway station
 * Birkenhead Monks Ferry railway station


 * Thanks very much for the feedback - it is appreciated. Just wanted to check that I'm writing these type of articles correctly. -- Snowy 1973 10:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)