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Metro rail + Metrolink combined map?
Ricky, I see you have created maps for both systems. Have you given any thought to creating a combined map, at least for the Metro service area? I haven't been able to find any maps that show the two systems together, and it would be really helpful to have one (as well as perhaps persuade LACMTA and Metrolink to combine their official maps.) Thanks!

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Your edits to Civic Center (LACMTA Station)
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Navigational boxes
Honestly, since they just switched to a new system for the boxes, I couldn't help you out with that. Try asking the people at WP:Trains. They might be able to help. Pacific Coast Highway { Ho! Ho! Ho! • My Presents! } 00:25, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

"fixing" redirects
hey there, I notice you recently did some mass "fixing" of redirects, but this is actually bad. the only redirects that ever need fixing are those that lead to WP:2R. take a look at Don't fix links to redirects that aren't broken. thanks! —lensovet–talk – 01:58, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
 * right, my bad (though I don't think it's that necessary to make the change for the name in general, but that's beside the point). your edit summary was a bit misleading, and that's what threw me off. sorry! —lensovet–talk – 02:30, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Suburban Express
Hi There! There is a company named Suburban Express in Illinois that has an unusual history (19 year old student takes on greyhound and wins, after surviving two commerce commisson investigations, predatory pricing by greyhound, etc). There was an interesting wiki article for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Suburban_Express&oldid=542659074. Suburban Express recently took some heat for their collection lawsuits (ie www.suburbanexpress.com/suits_to_reinstate/ ) and for tangling with some reddit moderator. Now the reddit people have hijacked the article as a way of making it a "self-object". A very vocal reddit user, almostgrad100, is pushing a sympathetic editor to destroy the article. I'd suggest that someone get in there and make it back into a useful transportation article, rather than leaving it the mess that it is. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.147.28.115 (talk) 21:37, 19 May 2013 (UTC)

Repairs to Image:System Map.png
Nice job with the graphics for the LACMTA. Like Hbdragon88 said, it looks GREAT! Request/recommendation though... could you correct the spelling of Anaheim and Aviation and reload the graphic? Thanks and keep up the great work! Hebron 04:39, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

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Stations
Just wanted to drop a note and say what a great job you did with the infobox at Union Station (Los Angeles). Mackensen (talk) 13:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Promo?
You stated that Image:Civic Center Station.jpg is a promo. Is there a link somewhewre to prove this? WAs it in one of those "Red Line Destinations and Shops" guides or something? I dunno, it never struck me as a promo, because the image is small and it isn't that great of one anyway - an image of a person's back? If that's promotoinal... Hbdragon88 09:48, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

Logos
I acutally think that logos are the copyright of the organization that holds them. I don't think these can be released into the public domain unless the organization explicitly releases them... Hbdragon88 06:00, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Metro Rail Map
Your new map of the Metro Rail/Metro Transitways system is great! However, there are a couple stations missing from the Red Line in Hollywood. Can you make these corrections (and any that I missed) and reupload? Thanks. --SameerKhan 07:22, 30 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Looks good to me! Thanks for fixing that. One other thing - does the Harbor Transitway really go all the way to Union Station? The 12-minute map only shows it going to Metro Center. I've never ridden it, and I'm too lazy to check metro.net, so I'm probably mistaken. --SameerKhan 07:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

I guess if we wanted to be really accurate about the transitway, it should only be shown between 37th St and the Artesia Transit Center. Metro shows it continuing to 7th/Metro, but that's probably just so that people don't think these buses all just stop at 37th and never make it downtown. Then again, as you said, why stop at 7th/Metro? Some of the buses continue to Union Station. But then again, why stop with Union Station either? The buses go in all sorts of directions. It's hard to know where to draw the line. I would lean towards sticking with what Metro says on their Transitways map. --SameerKhan 02:22, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Are you kidding me? These drawings are horrible! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.9.33.203 (talk • contribs) 23:44, 4 April 2007

I was wondering if you could upload Muni Metro route map to Wikimedia Commons so that the other language version can refer to it. --84.9.49.122 10:40, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Sorry to say this, but the fact that it took me a couple of hours to add crossings to the Gold Line template just to see it reverted is a big middle finger on my dashboard. Lars Smiley (talk) 21:41, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Response to your message
Thanks for your concern. Metro Orange Line is the official name. --Threeonezero 1510 hours, 030307

Santa Clarita Transit
My source is that I talked to a staff member at the City of Santa Clarita who verified the information. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.80.43.248 (talk) 20:57, 22 April 2007 (UTC).

Santa Clarita Transit
Thanks for the advice. I signed up under a user name. The info was relayed over the phone. The City will be releasing a RFP for painting new buses and a list of vehicles and bus numbers will be listed when its out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Simrox9 (talk • contribs) 22:54, 22 April 2007 (UTC).

Your revert
Ah, you probably just have a browser with a broken font that doesn't cover all of unicode. If you install a more complete font (dejavu is one free example) you won't have any problems. :) --Gmaxwell 06:39, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Color formatting
Color formatting has been tried before, and was done via use of templates. Those were unanimously deleted here in 2005. Doing it through direct formatting isn't any better. hbdragon88 05:04, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

Hm, wrong discussion I read. Color blindness is an issue here - it's appropriateness and necessity. I argue they perhaps might have a necessity in the main LACMTA article (once), but not for a template. hbdragon88 05:07, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

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Metro Liner
Thanks for clarifying the full situation. hbdragon88 23:30, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

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Re: Silver Streak in line infoboxes
The reason why I put in "Foothill Transit:" is because I don't think anyone outside of the L.A. area would know that the Silver Streak is not a Metro service unless they clicked on the link to take them to the article (or find out by other means). The same situation could apply to, for example, the Big Blue Bus and the Rapid 3. I understand that probably 90% of the visitors to those articles live around here, but I'd rather cater to the 10% who don't, just in case. -Rcstampede 14:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

Gold Line extension
I was wondering if you could put your awesome art skills to work in drawing a free version of Image:Goldlinefoothillext.gif. hbdragon88 00:41, 17 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Very cool. I like it a lot. hbdragon88 00:23, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Metro Express
THANK YOU for cleaning up the Metro Express article. I was getting really annoyed at how bloated the article became due to a couple of users making mindless edits. I appreciate you taking the time to heavily modify that article. Let's hope someone doesn't revert the edit. Rcstampede 16:25, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

Muni Metro map
Just a note, but on the map, "Dubocoe" is a misspelling. The correct spelling is "Duboce" (i.e. "Duboce and Church" and "Duboce and Noe"). — Kurykh  17:35, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Metro Rail map
Hi there. Sorry about the deletion. I had left a comment on the talk page back in February and no one answered it. It was regarding the unofficial extensions on the map. The new map looks great though! Thanks. --SameerKhan 07:57, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

Expo Phase 2
Neither Expo Phase 1 nor Expo Phase 2 currently exist. So what is your point of making a standardized Metro map for the Expo Line? The line won't go into operation until 2009 or later -- two or three years from now.

Look at the Gold Line page. Phase 2 and even Phase 3 (2B) information is listed under the station list. And the Gold Line Phase 2+ has much smaller chance of getting built in the near future. It's not even in the Metro plans. But, all the Metro board thinks that Expo Phase 2 will start to be built before Phase 1 is finished. So what's your point again?

Wikipedia is a place where people go to get information. Keep this in mind. No need to obsess with stuff like using "official Metro" station names etc. You were insisting on using 23rd Street instead of 23rd/Flower. How are the readers going to make sense out of such information? Remember that you are not editing a Metro timetable brochure but an encyclopedia. And even some of the so-called official stations are hardly official. For example chances are rather high that the temporary Washington/National (your official) station will be moved to the permanent Venice/Robertson by the time construction reaches there. This information comes from the Expo people. You can't just get information by sitting and browsing the Metro and buildexpo pages. If that is the case, why even bother? People can go to Metro and buildexpo pages directly and get first-hand information and professionally drawn maps. Wikipedia is not just a summary of the Metro and buildexpo pages but a broad view.

I appreciate your contributions. But if you want to improve the article, try adding information to it, rather than deleting. Feel free to add the three proposed stations on the Venice/Sepulveda route if you like (Overland, Sepulveda, National).

In less than a year, the route will be decided. Stations won't even be finalized by then. In the mean time, we will keep the information updated along the way.

Esirgen 20:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

The difference between the Expo Line and the other lines is that the Expo Line does not exist. No need to bother with official station names and official-looking maps for at least another year. For a planned line, it is quite natural for the article be different in style than an operational line.

By the way why do you bother drawing these maps anyway; why don't you post actual Metro maps (with permission if necessary)? They are much better drawn. See, e.g., the map on the Metro Blue Line timetable. Far superior to what you have drawn. Cross streets are shown as well; therefore, even if they say Pico, people can see that it is Pico/Flower. In the maps you have drawn and the station tables you have edited, people have no idea what you are talking about. It is as if you are only doing these edits for your personal satisfaction. Sorry for being harsh, but that's basically what it comes to.

Since the Gold Line posts Phase 2 stations, the Expo Line needs to post them as well. The reason I have only included the ROW stations on the main table is because since they are going for federal funding, this is the most likely route since it is the most cost-effective (cheapest). The other stations were listed in the diversion section. Feel free to extend the table to include other stations, but it would probably make it look confusing.

I am not a Metro insider. I get my information from going to actual meetings and meeting actual people. If anyone is interested in getting more information, this is how it is done.

Esirgen 16:39, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

You can contact Metro and ask for permission for Wikipedia. They might be much more helpful than you think.

Of course I don't mind other people editing the Expo Line article. This is extremely important. In fact many other people have contributed to the article. What I find unacceptable is people deleting useful information and carelessly messing with the figures. Then there are also the Neighbors for Smart Rail folks, who ruthlessly oppose the line through their neighborhood, and who have been conspiring to hire their own Wikipedia editors for the Expo Line (I know this fact from an insider who attended their private meeting).

Why don't you wait until the route and stations are decided so that you could draw a full Expo system map, including Phase 2? It is hardly necessary to have a system map before the Expo Line becomes part of the system -- more than two years from now. The line is not even listed under Metro Rail but planned Metro Rail (your edit I assume). The Gold Line lists its Phase 2 stations, so should the Expo Line. With both the Gold and Expo Lines aiming hard for federal funding, it's the task of transit enthusiasts like you and me to provide comprehensive and elegant, and accurate of course, articles for both lines so that they reflect the public support behind them. I think the Expo Line covers all proposed Phase 2 alternatives and station options the way it is currently written.

Esirgen 20:21, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

Did you know its already 2016 and Expo Line Phase 2 is already built and the Phase 1 of Foothill extension is too. I think this makes no sense anymore. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.252.7.11 (talk) 07:28, 7 July 2016 (UTC)

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Given my limited knowledge on how to use the rail templates (I copied-and-pasted the S left-side template from the old J one), I really don't know how to add "rush hours only" to the template. — Kurykh  21:28, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

May I ask, what do you use to draw your maps? — Kurykh  03:18, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

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Chapman University Edits
Your recent condensation of the numerous sections related to Sigma Alpha Mu on Chapman University's page is appreciated. However, these headings and the FERPA issue are two separate matters and should be kept separate. Please keep it that way and refrain from inserting unverifiable facts or opinions. Thanks! 72.130.39.180 22:18, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Ricky-

Please leave the Chapman University page alone. You continue to integrate things together that are not related. Your limited knowledge of this matter through pledging the Fiji fraternity does not make you an authority on the topic. The FERPA complaint (which deals with privacy issues) is not related to the ACLU matter (which deals with first amendment rights). Please leave them as separate issues. Thanks, 72.130.39.180 23:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Ricky-

If what you posted on my talk page is the case, then you need to clean up your grammar and learn how to correctly extrapolate information from sources. While the ACLU and FERPA are both involved with Sigma Alpha Mu, the ACLU is not campaigning towards the student's privacy, they are lobbying for student rights on campus. FERPA is concerned with privacy issues stemming from the September 22nd letter sent by Dean of Students Joe Kertes to the student you mentioned. Sorry for the Fiji knock, please read between the lines though, and don't attempt to re-explain what is written. The sources are there for people to go to and read for themselves. As far as anonymity, I like it. :) 206.211.148.78 04:43, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Ricky -

Based on NABI delivery data in my posession, there would appear to be two separate 9495's floating around. The 60BRT 9495 is serial 6A140312, chasdis 60BRT.01.296. The 65BRT is serial 7A140057, chassis 65BRT.01.001. The one preceding serial 6A140312 is 9494, chassis 60BRT.01.295, the one following is 9500, serial 7A140143, chassis 60BRT.01.297. Therefore, the 65BRT SHOULD be 9600, unless the "real" 9495 (60BRT.01.296) was not delivered...andrethebusman99@msn.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.223.17.127 (talk) 19:54, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

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Your image Image:Blue Line Map.png
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IE Coaster
The COASTER is the because it stops in Oceanside where there it meets with the Orange County/Inland Empire line...but I think I will remove it any thanks for the any way thanks for the comment! Salcan (talk) 04:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

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Thanks for your help with Compass Card & TAP
Thank you for helping me with the compass card article. I am a public transit rider in san diego county myself and it is rater ironic that someone fro los angeles county would help with the paperless ticket technology we call the compass card. As you may know los angeles county implemented their own Paperless Ticket System Known as TAP about a year ago And I was just contributing to it a few weeks ago. Oddly enough both smart card systems are manufactured by the same company, Cubic Transportation Systems, Inc., located in san diego, ca. As a being wikipedian i wloud ask that if you have some extra time if you cloud look over some of my edits and/or creations. It wluod be greatly appreciated if we cloud work together on these articles regarding paperless tickets. Thank You, please feel fee to leave a respnce on my user talk page.

How did you make your map(s)?
I was very impressed with your map of the metro LA rail system.

Which software did you use to make the map? Dogru144 (talk) 14:39, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
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City of Santa Clarita Transit pictures
I'll definitely add some of my photos to the Santa Clarita Transit page at some point -- as soon as I can find the time. :-) The Port of Authority (talk) 04:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

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Metro Liner/Transitway
While I'm ambivalent about which is the correct name, I undid all you're edits in regards to the name because these copy-and-paste moves cannot be done. Moves must be handled by the move function to preserve the edit history, which is legally required by the licensing terms Wikipedia runs on. If the title really should be changed (and again, I'm ambivalent either way), use the WP:RM page to contact an administrator for help. oknazevad (talk) 08:57, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Good faith edits and probably a correct idea, but there's a much easier way to achieve what you want. See Talk:Metro_Transitway. Lexlex (傻) (talk) 14:40, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
 * My mistake. Thanks for pointing me in the correct direction folks. RickyCourtney (talk) 19:25, 24 May 2013 (UTC)

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If you are not a sock puppet account, then ultimately this warning will not be effective. However if you are, you are gonna have to be required to consult with the officials. HanSangYoon (talk) 22:16, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
 * To translate this into English: HanSangYoon has filed both an ANI report and a SPI report against you and multiple others. And he did so without using the proper notice templates to notify you, 'natch. Sigh... --IJBall (talk) 00:44, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Huh. Interesting. Thanks for the translation... I would have never known about the report without your link. Never in my 9 years on Wikipedia have I had such a personal attack against me. Don't really know how to respond to such a frivolous and baseless accusation. Hopefully my response to the SPI will be sufficient. --RickyCourtney (talk) 07:43, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, if this process results in anything less than a block against your (our) accuser, I will actually disappointed. But I'm sorry this has happened, and I think it's ridiculous that you (we) have all been dragged through this by this editor. --IJBall (talk) 15:58, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Keep in mind the user is still in high school. While not an excuse for poor behaviour, I seem to recall my classmates regularly becoming outraged at most any perceived injustice around that age. Perhaps a gentle engagement might encourage an up-and-coming editor more than a punitive block. Lexlex (talk) 17:48, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
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Thank you and pls help
I got your "thank you" note for my edits to L.A. Union Station and I do appreciate the positive feedback. Nowadays I have to be careful using Wikipedia. I'm often provoked into my Auto Edit mode when I see articles that need help. LOL.

Actually, I wandered into "Union Station" in pursuit of "Mary Colton", the designer/architect of the Harvey House space. (Heavily rewrote and expanded her article, because she deserved it! Wow. What a life!)

Now can you help me? My skills about uploading photos, the rules on borrowing them, etc. are nil. But it looks like you are knowledgeable in this field, and located in L.A. ;-)

The Union Station article could use a good photo of the Harvey House space. I's very photogenic, especially the Navaho pattern floor!, and it's newsy, with the gastropub coming soon. And the Mary Colter article badly needs such a photo; her artistry was not confined to the Grand Canyon's South Rim.

I've found good pictures, at http://thesource.metro.net/2014/09/15/gastropub-proposed-for-fred-harvey-room-at-los-angeles-union-station/ and at   http://laplaces.blogspot.com/2010/02/union-station-harvey-house.html. Since Metro is a public agency, the pix belong to the public, so lazy way grab the photo and credit Steve Hymon and Metro. Nicer thing to send Hymon an e-mail and ask for permission. Let him tell us, it's publicly owned. But you know your way around these issues better than I do.

Anyway, my problem is that if Hymon e-mailed me permission to use, I wouldn't know the proper way to grab it, add it to Wiki Commons, and insert the photo into the "Mary Colter" and "Union Station" articles. So let's you do it, OK?

And thanks again.

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When did Pliot bus KCM 7000 got removed from the KCM fleet. And do u mind updating the KCM CPTDB wiki Page please and remove 3185-3197 from Active to retired and make an update on 7000

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Talk:Greyhound Lines/GA1
RickyCourtney, it's been over a month since you last edited the article or posted to the review, and the review will have been opened for three months as of Tuesday. There are still a number of issues to be addressed, including some added during August. The next time you edit here, please stop by the review to say what you plan to do with your nomination. Three months is approaching the end of its natural life, especially when progress has been stalled for so long. Thank you. BlueMoonset (talk) 17:26, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
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 * Thanks for the encouragement. The sourcing work has been done and I've placed a request for help into the GAN help desk. Now I wait... again. --RickyCourtney (talk) 15:45, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Your article has passed. I apologize for the delay. StudiesWorld (talk) 16:06, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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Hi, I have a proposal to add back the list of bus routes on the TriMet page. The separate page was deleted in 2013, because "Wikipedia is not a travel guide." I checked the link, but it doesn't clear anything up. I attempted to recreate the page with a slightly new list design and updated data, but that was deleted as well. I find it amazing that the person challenging the list is not questioning all of the other lists. I would appreciate you voicing your opinion on TriMet's talk page. If you would like to see my updated list, it is in my sandbox. Thanks! RES2773 (talk) 16:10, 3 October 2015 (UTC)RES2773

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Metro Local
Hey Rick,

Just wanted to let you know that the Metro Local you put up for deletion was the one in Los Angeles County, not the one in King County.

Best,--TJH2018 (talk) 05:38, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I actually nominated both the "Metro Local" article for the agency in Los Angeles and "List of King County Metro bus routes". Both are essentially giant lists of bus routes. The Metro Local article is also packed with unsourced information (like the "Operated by" information) and the article relies on one source. Thanks for dropping me a line. --RickyCourtney (talk) 06:03, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Hey, So maybe what we should do is just delete the route information and instead put a link to Metro's timetable section of their website. TJH2018 (talk) 15:36, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * I also put up the list of Metro Local routes up for deletion, so once that goes, then we should delete the routes on Metro Local.TJH2018 (talk) 22:26, 22 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Thanks for getting rid of the divisions. I made a Metro userbox, if you want it. Go Metro Userbox. TJH2018 (talk) 02:55, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

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Hey Ricky,

Kinkisharyo finally got around to posting a fact sheet fact sheet for the Kinkisharyo P3010, so I took the initiative and created an article for it. If you could take a look and tell me what you think, that would be great!

Thanks! TJH2018 talk  16:29, 8 March 2017 (UTC)

Orange Line (San Diego Trolley)
Ricky, where are you getting that the Orange Line now terminates at America Plaza? It does that temporarily for some events – e.g. this. But, as of now, it still goes to Santa Fe Depot, unless that has changed very recently.

Incidentally, when the Mid-Coast Trolley extension opens, the plan is to pare the Orange Line back – but not to American Plaza: instead a new station near Civic Center that supposedly is in the planning stages will be the new Orange Line terminus. --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:51, 11 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Hey that change went into effect with today's service change. --RickyCourtney (talk) 18:27, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Huh... I wonder why they're doing that now (while not moving simultaneously the Blue Line into Santa Fe Depot...). Anyway, this change surprises me – it's gotten no news coverage down here that I can see... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 18:29, 11 June 2017 (UTC)

ACF-Brill
Thanks for correcting, in your recent edits to Trolleybuses in Seattle, my error of piping J. G. Brill Company as ACF-Brill Company. When I added that text, I was thinking that J.G. Brill had already been renamed ACF-Brill by the time the Seattle order was built, but I see now that the renaming did not occur until 1944. Regarding the fleet table, beware that the Seattle fleet roster at the "Tom's North American Trolley Bus Pictures" site has several errors in it (personal fan websites are usually not reliable sources for WP, for that reason; however, websites of transit-fan organizations are somewhat more likely to be reliable). I wrote the "Tom's" webmaster in May, giving him several corrections to the roster, but am still waiting for him to correct and update his table. SJ Morg (talk) 05:25, 5 July 2017 (UTC)

Re: ORCALeak / ORCA user data disclosure incident
First, thanks for your effort in editing ORCA user data disclosure incident to a higher standard. I appreciate it. I think your edits make the page more readable and palatable to rabid fans of Sound Transit.

Second, **I** coined the term ORCAleak or Abigaileak as nomenclature for the scandal. Some talk show hosts on KTTH & KVI like Todd Herman are now using that nomenclature of ORCAleak. The ideal was from the WikiLeaks controversies.

Third, I admit openly to not being very experienced in contributing to WikiPedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by JosefAbraham (talk • contribs) 20:56, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

SkyWest
Ricky, please revert your most recent edit. Editor 199.101.76.47 is an employee of the firm and has edited this article very well for years. His numbers include all spare aircraft and seat layouts to the day. Some of your seat layouts are years old. Separating out the ERJ -175 SC model is certainly fine. Thanks AirOpsExecnPlt (talk) 22:02, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your feedback on my edits.
 * I'm simply trying to bring the fleet chart into alignment with the information supported by citations given. A core policy of Wikipedia is that articles must not contain original research and must be sourced, preferably using published secondary sources. While the information from 199.101.76.47 may be correct, it's not supported by the published primary source given. But, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, so feel free to correct my edits and cite your sources. --RickyCourtney (talk) 22:18, 7 September 2017 (UTC)
 * I'm simply trying to bring the fleet chart into alignment with the information supported by citations given. A core policy of Wikipedia is that articles must not contain original research and must be sourced, preferably using published secondary sources. While the information from 199.101.76.47 may be correct, it's not supported by the published primary source given. But, Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, so feel free to correct my edits and cite your sources. --RickyCourtney (talk) 22:18, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

You can see www.delta.com for the proper upgraded seat lay out just completed, again as was noted in the article for weeks. Delta connection is 9/16/44/69 only as of last month. AirOpsExecnPlt (talk) 22:25, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

Ricky, thanks for your 'row clean up' to SkyWest today, 2/5. AirOpsExecnPlt (talk) 00:53, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Nice chart work on 3/12!! AirOpsExecnPlt (talk) 20:30, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

BNSF structure
Is Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation the same company? You forgot to change the info on the Union Pacific Railroad page.Granthew (talk) 20:08, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Kinda sorta. A simple way of putting it is that Berkshire created Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC, which absorbed Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation. But all that's just in legal documents, everything stayed the same at the headquarters. I didn't change the info on the Union Pacific Railroad page... because the railroad competes with the BNSF Railway. I did make the changes on the Union Pacific Corporation. I will say... this is all a bit "inside baseball" for the casual reader. --RickyCourtney (talk) 20:29, 13 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Well that means it is not kinda sorta. You should of put that in the article. And I'm taking a guess that Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC and R Acquisition Company, LLC, is the same company, R Acquisition Company LLC absorbs Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation and then R Acquisition Company, LLC changes its name to Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC. I wonder what "R" stands for?


 * On these two documents, it does say Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC replaces Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation, but it also says that the railroad is also the former Burlington Northern Railroad:
 * http://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/pdf/10k-railway-2016.pdf
 * http://www.bnsf.com/about-bnsf/financial-information/pdf/10k-llc-2016.pdf


 * Does the railroad call itself BNSF Railway or BNSF Railway Company? Usually, the railroad doesn't call itself by the documentation name. The PRR for example, the PRR documentation name was Pennsylvania Railroad Company, but they never called themselves Pennsylvania Railroad Company, they called themselves Pennsylvania Railroad. Thus, Pennsylvania Railroad is the proper name, while Pennsylvania Railroad Company is not. Same with Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific.


 * Granthew (talk) 00:17, 14 September 2017 (UTC)


 * I felt like I did put that into the article, in fact you just quoted what I put into the article. The publicly traded Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corporation became Burlington Northern Santa Fe, LLC, a subsidiary company of Berkshire Hathaway. The new structure enabled the railroad to owned by one entity (Berkshire Hathaway), instead of being publicly-traded and held by many shareholders. In other words, you or I can no longer go out and buy a share of BNSF... only a share of Berkshire Hathaway, the owner of BNSF.
 * The 1994–1998 merger of BN and SF was incredibly legally complex this SEC Form 10-K provides a good explanation of how it happened.
 * BNSF is legally the "BNSF Railway Company." Per Naming conventions (companies) when naming pages, whenever possible, common usage is preferred (BNSF Railway, in this case), but regardless of the article title, the first sentence of the article should normally begin with the full legal name of the company (BNSF Railway Company).
 * Hope this helps.
 * --RickyCourtney (talk) 15:14, 14 September 2017 (UTC)


 * Okay, but do you really have to create a subsidiary company of your own to purchase another company and make the company you purchased a subsidiary too? Can you just purchase all stock of a company without creating a subsidiary company to purchase a company?


 * Well the merger info on the SEC Form is pretty much straight forward. So Union Pacific Railroad should be Union Pacific Railroad Company and Norfolk Southern Railway should be Norfolk Southern Railway Company? I feel that "railroad" or "railway" can be a type of business entity title. UP and NS commonly call themselves Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway while it seems BNSF calls itself BNSF Railway Company more than BNSF Railway. BNSF uses BNSF Railway, Inc. on their facebook page, what is up with that name?
 * --Granthew (talk) 17:40, 14 September 2017 (UTC)

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