User talk:Sladen/Archives/2007

The MML
I see you are a regular contributor. Could you please tell me if the Midland Main Line reaches Burton-(up?)on-Trent please? I don't find any reference to it on the Midland Mainline page. Worley-d 23:18, 3 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Answered at User_talk:Worley-d. Sladen 08:04, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

AHA
I have some notability concerns with the amount of detail you put on the deflate page. Tomstdenis 18:00, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

Eurostar NoL transfer
I notice you've added some info about this, without providing a source. Obviously it'd be sad to delete it, but I can't find anything about it online to back it up. Where did you hear about it? --Dtcdthingy 01:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Online references are a little hard to come-by, I first read this in the paper-based rail press. Lets see what we can find:


 * http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/msg/6bb36608b4d3defd
 * http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/browse_thread/thread/4d49035d6103b321/a8588242b38c7b37

Off-topic, but useful to save for updating other related articles:


 * http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/msg/9e610bdb9d0e72e4
 * http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk.railway/browse_thread/thread/297674d47de3f22d/89706ecbaf09c8ae?lnk=st&q=eurostar+sncf&rnum=3#
 * http://railrover.fotopic.net/p26908310.html

Template:Channel Tunnel Rail Link
Ah... I didn't realise the CTRL split and went roudn Dollands Moor. I through the left-hand loop was the SE main line. I've moved the notes from teh template to the main article, because otherwise the template stretche full width. I also tweaked the layout to clarfiy the situation with the SE main line. Tom pw (talk) 21:07, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Midland Main Line template
Can I invite you to a discussion on the future of this template, and the possibility of creating two template from this one at Template talk:Midland Main Line.  L.J.Skinner wot 18:09, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

bzip2
Your edition on bzip2 doesn't make any sense; a Wikipedia article is not a format specification or a user guide. Please revert it. (unsigned comment added by Santiago Roza (Kq) at 15:28, 16 August 2007).
 * Hello Santiago, good to meet you. I spotted your edit to the Bzip2 article, to which I'm sure all of the contributors to the Bzip2 article are very appreciative.  When trying to improve Wikipedia, it is often good to take BOLD steps to test if an article can be improved.  Your edit consisted of deleting 12kB out of the total 18kB of the article (67% of the article contents) which is quite a high percentage.  As such I have reverted the change for the moment—an edit on such a large scale probably needs a good deal of discussion beforehand.
 * In Wikipedia, we have the guidance from the BOLD, revert, discuss cycle policy; on that list, the next suggested step (following a reverted bold edit) is to raise the intended changes on the Talk:Bzip2 page.  With detailed clear reasoning on how a suggested change could improve the article, it's much more likely that such large modification could be found to be an acceptable improvement.  Once again, thank you for your contribution and willingness to be BOLD!  —Sladen 23:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Fish transport/Inverness sleeper

 * ''Discussion moved across to Talk:Caledonian Sleeper —Sladen 09:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Stopping Patterns (seated/sleeping)

 * Discussion moved across to Talk:Caledonian Sleeper (Stewart (talk) 08:29, 25 August 2007 (UTC)) 

Signatures
Hello, thanks for your contribution to the jZip article discussion. It looks like at least two of your recent comments were signed with the date&time only, and no username; one of them being on the above page, and the other this one. --AVRS 17:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * How strange. I did once spot this happen on a page and assumed it I must somehow of deleted it, so ignored it.  Now that you've found it, and in two places... I'm puzzled.  Thank you for fixing that recent comment, I've gone and fixed up the other one you linked to.  I'm going to keep an eye out and if I can confirm seeing it happen again will try and escalate the issue (it could just repeatable human even, though that's a lot of coincidence). —Sladen 19:41, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Testing:
 * This is the result from ' ': —Sladen
 * This is the result from ' ': —Sladen 19:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This is the result from ' ': —19:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
 * This is the result from ' ': —19:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)~
 * Lets see what these get saved as. —Sladen 19:45, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

Treago Castle
Yes I did add a reference to the locomotive named after Treago Castle some time ago and indeed played about by adding references to other Castle class locos and indeed other classes. Then many Wikipedians descended on me like a ton of bricks and complained that the references were trivial and not suitable for an encyclopaedia. Perhaps I had been too daring! So I deleted them all. But by all means keep the reference in this article if you wish. Incidentally I have deleted the "stub" assessment; the article is now more than that. It would be even more improved if you could find more references and include more inline citations – and maybe a copyright-free photo. Best wishes. Peter I. Vardy 10:57, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Note on NXEC
Can i direct you to Wikipedia talk:Route diagram template? It is about the Template: NXEC route which was formally the one on the InterCity East Coast franchise. Simply south (talk) 20:13, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Channel Tunnel Rail Link / High Speed One
Thanks for the politeness you employed when discussing these changes. Perhaps I had been too bold in redirecting links to the new page name. I did so for the sake of conformity. Though I feel it's appropriate to refer to the project in retrospect using the name "High Speed 1", this is a wiki, and I have no objection to you undoing any of my changes, and I encourage you to continue to make the case for the CTRL name on that talk page. Hopefully we'll eventually get to a solution that's agreeable to all. Cheers, Alcuin (talk) 21:18, 25 November 2007 (UTC)