User talk:Slambo/Archive 0611

A template
just to note, Template:British TOCs is a template and not a category. Simply south 15:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Welcome to WP:LUL
Thank you for joining WikiProject Underground. We hope you enjoy your time as a member and helping bring our articles to their best! Unisouth 16:46, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Phone Numbers
Why would you remove the phone numbers for the train stations? John R G 18:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Organization of railroad articles
The question I posted here hasn't gotten much attention, so I thought I'd bring it to you directly. I'm interested in adding some information on, for instance, the Pennsylvania Railroad system, but I'd like to have some input on proper structure before I start adding a large number of articles. Choess 16:39, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * OK, let me just give a concrete example to make sure we're on the same page. I'd probably want to subdivide the PRR into divisional units, which is about the largest chunk I'd like to discuss in a comprehensive article, with articles for individual branches spun out as necessary. (This has its own uncertainties — the internal divisional structure was mutable over time — but there's ample data on how it did so.) Some of the "paper corporations" could be dealt with entirely within a single division, and the name of those corporations would redirect to "Pennsylvania Railroad (Foo Division)", where an infobox could be embedded in the article. Others, like the Philadelphia and Trenton Railroad or the Connecting Railway were the nominal owners of trackage in more than one division. In that case, I'd "skeletonize" the article on the corporation — strip it down to a mere description of line owned and abandoned and corporate history — and discuss operations at the various division pages, with mutual links between the short paper corporation article and the divisions that actually operated its railroad. This keeps the focus on operations while preserving knowledge of the underlying corporate structure. Choess 19:04, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

How to create a new category
Can you help me to create a new category page about Indian locomotives. I already tried to make one but it seems not to work properly.--Iball 07:57, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

A proposal that could affect us highly negatively
See Attribution. While it would have the desirable-to-me effect of cutting back on all the various station articles (since nobody is going to be able to come up with an acceptable source for a lot of them), it would largely destroy the trains project as it stands if it were strictly enforced. (I notice that the media fancruft is getting a pass-- probably there would be open rebellion if they attempted to demand "proper" sources there.) Mangoe 19:52, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Railroad Templates
I have been adding Templates to the Railroad pages I made. I have a question it says "owned by" but I do not know who it is owned by. Also how do you think I am doing on these pages I would like to know. Thanks John R G 07:13, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

About loco category
Thanks for your help.--Iball 09:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

CTRL (Channel Tunnel Rail Link)
Are you sure this is only of Mid importance? It is vital in that it is about the UK linking up with mainland Europe's rail network through obviously the Channel Tunnel. This plays a quite major role in at least the history of this area. Simply south 19:39, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyedit request
Hello. My name is Tadas. I'm lithuanian. I can't speak in english very good. And I want to please you maybe you can amend mistakes in my essay. :)

''We all are thinking about our future. Fututre in our imagination always, I think, is good. And I believe that my future will be good to.''

''I think that I will have finished 10 class in one year' time. I'll be playing with accordion and be reading books. believe that my marks will be better and I hold examine in next summer.''

''I'll have finished school in five years' time and I'll be looking university where I'll be studying. I think that I will be living in my own house and will work in job, but I don't know in what job.''

''Ill have travelled all Europe in ten years' time. I think that I'll be having a family and will be living in my own house in ten years' time.''

I believe that I'll have a good pay work and I believe that my life will be wonderfull.

I very please you delete mistakes. If you can writte good text in my user talk. Tadas12 15:07, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

Tom Thumb
User talk:84.195.191.31 Re: Tom Thumb

Hello, Thanks for your reaction. I did not know how to send it, so I had to use 'edit' to have a reaction. I just made an acount: 'wdew', wdew@telenet.be.

For your information: 1. I am working for 25 years in the public relations department of Belgian Railways. And my interst in railways dates from long before that. Thanks to my job I was present and sometime co-organiser in a lot of railway events. I co-organised the belgian part of the official opening of the chunnel and I co-organised the Royal first official Eurostar Brussels>London, ... So for some data I have first hand information.

2. In my aim for perfection in possibilities I found a 'agenda' program that is (almost) perfect for me. All I ever hoped is possible in this program, it recognizes Easter, the last Friday of September each year, ... but also IF conditions: if the normal (agendaà date is Easter move it to the following Sunday, ... Next to the personnal 'agenda' inputs you could select one or more 'chapters', originally meanth for 'holydays' of different countries. I took contact with the maker of the program and he allowed me to make supplementary 'chapters' for his program and to put them available on my website (with a link to his webside, and on his website a link to mine). So I make a many 'chapters', among them: Railways in Belgium, International Railways, ... And because it was available to everyone I have on my website a brief explanation of the sources where I found that data, so everyone can verify that my information is as correct as possible. Much of my chapters are in Dutch, buit more and more come available in English. The chapters are text-files, so you don't need the program to be able to read them. If you want to look at it: http://users.telenet.be/wdew/ The files with my sources are at: http://users.telenet.be/wdew/Basis%20PTB/Holiday%20INFO/

I hope this can help you.

I only want to obtian that my 'chapters' are as correct as possible. I look on the internet and in libraries. I write to organisations when I think I found an error on their site. If they respond I have again a proof: or they explain why their information is correct, or they inform me that they made an error, and so we helped each other. I try to compare to be as shure as I can about the data.

I see a lot of useful information on Wikipedia. But sometimes I think I have better information. So I tried to have a reaction. The only way I found was by editing the page. So thanks for your reaction. If I find other point to discus on Railways, may I write you to examin it?

Wilfried Dewaelheyns, Belgium. Wdew 15:39, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

The Depot at Santa Ana / Santa Ana (Amtrak station)
Hi. I recently created the article Santa Ana (Amtrak station), complete with standard Amtrak station and services infoboxes. I'm pretty sure at least one other user is likely going to add to it soon. As what has been the standard in southern California stations, they've gone by the name "xxxxx (Amtrak station)" or "xxxxx (Metrolink Station)". This is the case with most stations on the Pacific Surfliner and Coast Starlight routes (see station listings). But I just noticed you made a stub of the same station - The Depot at Santa Ana. Would you want to do a redirect to Santa Ana (Amtrak station) and add original information there? --Marriedtofilm 06:40, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

User you blocked yesterday is vandalising again.
Yesterday at about this time you blocked 207.63.107.68 with an expiry time of 24 hours. That IP seems to be vandalising again. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 17:01, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Bot request
Hi, I'll be glad to do that - I'll try to get it sorted over the weekend/start of next week. Sorry for the delay, but as you can probably see from my talk page, I've got loads of other requests! (as well as RL). Thanks for your patience :) M  a  rtinp23  17:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

How do I create maps for RR project?
Sean, is it very difficult to create maps? I'm novice and would like to join the map project, but I don't know which program (Freeware?) to use and don't have experience. Rhallanger 01:49, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

MartinBotII
Hi! I've programed MartinBotII to be able to update the lists, as requested. I'm going to do some other coding for other tasks on it, then submit them all to WP:BRFA, after which I'll be able to get the bot editting on a regualer basis. M a  rtinp23  16:07, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Move
I'll move it the other way around as a redirect. Or can you do it as an administrator, so that the history moves with it? There was a revert move funtion, but I don't see it anymore. I am trying to create redirects from full names and vice versa, and find missing middle names for people. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 17:28, 23 October 2006 (UTC). Looks like you can just do another move back to the truncated name and then the fullname becomes a redirect!

Don't forget to add people to Category:Missing middle or first names if you need more research to find a missing name from a truncated name.

DYK
Hi Slambo, can you please check these? I am not used to en.wiki rules, so I may have made something wrong, but it seems to me that my work was not that bad, after all and some info were interesting... --Jollyroger 23:19, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, they are meant to be used in lot of time. --Jollyroger 10:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Years of births and deaths
I have benn trolling from since the 1400s and have been adding the years of birth and death to the persons on year pages and year in "whatever" pages, and linking them to the year page. Also I been removing redirects and links to dab pages by linking directly. your feedback is requested. Please leave comments on my talk page. Dfoley51 23:39, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

WP:TWP talk
Just thinking. I think the talk page is a bit too long and should be archived. What do you think? Simply south 19:42, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Should i raise this question on the TWP talk page (not the shortcut)? Simply south 20:15, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

twp parameters
I am a little unsure about "subway". Is that for underground stations only (as opposed to above ground) or is that for all U-Bahn/Metro related articles (Stations/vehicles)? Agathoclea 22:51, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Long Time No speak
G'day from drought affected oz tralia. trust the rain still falls where you live! There seems to be a heap of 2 foot edits by gwernol - which really goes against the grain as most of the world understands metrics (ha, the old atlantic separation of terminology and technology etc) wondering what you might say to this- also - is there a convention on citing gauge imperial/metric within the rail project at all? The edit I first noticed was North East Dundas Tramway. Cheers SatuSuro 04:06, 28 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Please dont bother - maybe he's seen my comment here I think - as he has inserted imperial and metric on the arts that i watcch for western tas - so he has come good, sorry to bother you - keep up the good work. SatuSuro 15:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Illinois services articles
Hi. I understand that you do a lot of work on passenger rail articles. Can you weigh in on my merge proposals at Illinois Zephyr/Carl Sandburg (Amtrak) and Illini (Amtrak)/Saluki (Amtrak)?

Also, is there a passenger rail MOS somewhere, maybe even in a draft form? Thanks. --Elliskev 19:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Great. Thanks. BTW, I'm perfectly happy going along with whatever is decided on. However, whatever is decided on should probably be noted somewhere so there's a precednt for the sake of uniformity. --Elliskev 21:35, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

IP Address
I have a dynamic IP address, this was not done by me. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.100.195.126 (talk • contribs) 12:01, October 31, 2006.
 * Since the edit in question was made on September 23, over a month ago, no further action was taken. Slambo (Speak) 18:13, 31 October 2006 (UTC)