User talk:Slambo/Archive 0703

Template:TWP
Can you make this populate Category:Needed-Class New York City public transportation articles? I'd do it, but... Thank you. --NE2 16:32, 27 January 2007 (UTC)


 * You might be interested in the discussion at Deletion review/Log/2007 January 28. --NE2 22:55, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
 * As discussed in the DRV, the passus about non-existing articles needs to go. Talk pages for non-existing articles are speedy-deletable, and fact collection before creation should occur in the WikiProject. ~ trialsanderrors 05:02, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll work out a way to save the info that we've collected so far within WP:TWP before removing the ifexist code from the template. Slambo (Speak) 12:03, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
 * See User:Slambo/TWP shop. Slambo (Speak)  21:16, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

TrainsWikiProject
Hi Slambo! I see that you are a main editor of the Trains WikiProject. Can I ask you to incorporate a new subproject (Metros of the former Soviet Union) into the TrainsWikiProject template, as I can't do it because it is protected. TIA, —dima/s-ko/ 00:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! —dima/s-ko/ 21:49, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

TWP tage on various Kent (UK) railway related pages
Cheers for beefing them up, i was adding the new WP Kent tags, and "only" copied a basic TWP tag ;) Pickle 21:22, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Kingj123 Article
I made a mistake. I accidentally redirected to Kingj123 article rather than User:Kingj123. Kingj123 article should not exist. Therefore, I will delete this article. --Kingj123 20:08, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
I'm not going to get into a screaming match with you, but you shouldn't delete other peoples updated information either. I was trying to update information on a page that has inaccurate data, which is allowed you know. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.66.193.57 (talk) 16:13, 19 February 2007 (UTC).
 * See the page edit history. Your edits removed most of the information on the page and two other editors also saw the updates as vandalism. Slambo (Speak) 11:45, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Rail Transport in Zambia
Hi -- can you please advise on the best organisation for topics on Railways in Zambia? Currently there's the 'Rail Transport in Zambia' page you created which has the links to Zambia Railways and Tazara, and there's the 'Transport in Zambia' page which has an overview of 'Railways in Zambia', with links to the two railway companies. I'm wondering whether to keep the overview on the transport page and to change the 'Rail transport' page to redirect to it, or vice versa: move the overview to the Rail Transport page and have a link from the Transport page. (And by the way the only aspect missing from the overview is the history of railways in the country, I was thinking of starting a separate History of Railways in Zambia page for the 'by country' category). Rexparry sydney 08:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

4-10-2 article
G'day Slambo. I've updated the 4-10-2 article but as we've never seen or even heard of a 4-10-2 in my land Downunder, can you arrange a pic of an engine. I've got pics in a book by Boynton but no copyright. Regards Tonyob 11:45, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Amtrak link
Hi, I added my site, Amtrak train status history to the Amtrak page. It has a very useful tool for riders of amtrak. Is there another place I can add it so riders can find it?

Thanks,

Faraz —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.108.46.204 (talk • contribs).

Externak links for calculating amtrak train delays
I added my site, Amtrak train status history to the Amtrak page, however you had removed it from external links. It is a very useful tool for riders of amtrak. Is there another place I can add it so riders can find it:

http://web.peoriadesignweb.com/cgi-bin/amtrak/train.cgi

22:48, 26 February 2007 (UTC)~ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.145.253.226 (talk • contribs).

Re: Amtrak link
I'm replying to the last two items here because they appeared in the page history as coming from two different IP addresses (as noted above).

The first reason I removed the link was in following WP:NOT and WP:SPAM policies. As such, we need to be careful what links we keep listed on Wikipedia articles.

The limited scope of information available on the proposed link, which states that it can lookup information for only the previous four days, severely decreases the link's value as an information source for an encyclopedia. If we are going to include on-time performance data, we need to include data over a much wider period than four days, and we need to display it in a way that is easily accessible for readers. The proposed link requires the user to request data on a specific train for a specific period. Such data can be easily thrown off by weather events such as the winter storm that passed through the Midwest over the past weekend (which kept me personally shoveling snow for about 12 hours); in such a circumstance, a large percentage of trains in the affected area will be late a greater amount of time than may be normal for the area. Restricting the results to such a short timeframe presents a misleading summary of performance. Slambo (Speak) 16:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)


 * However, you may consider adding the link to the Amtrak page at Train.SpottingWorld (which has not yet been created as of this writing). Slambo (Speak)  17:00, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

IC 2500 steam engine site
Hi Slambo. A couple of months ago I told you about how my grandfather led the preservation effort for the IC 2500 steam engine. Back in 1962, he got the IC to donate it to the city of Centralia, and supervised it's move down Broadway about 5 miles to it's permanent location in Fairview Park, Centralia, IL.

I said I'd let you know when I got a website up, and I finally did.

http://www.ageofsteammemorial.org/index.htm

It's the first version, so may be a little rough.

Thanks, Rich Norton

--Nnnortonian 20:05, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Amtrak link
Regarding my Amtrak train status link, it now stores upto 3 weeks into the past. The purpose is for a rider to determine the probability of their train being late based on the past few weeks. So when weather has delayed trains for a few days, that becomes very relevant for the rider as their train could also be delayed a lot if the weather is still bad. So this is basically a resource for riders. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.2.142.7 (talk) 22:54, 27 February 2007 (UTC).
 * A longer period is helpful, but it's still not what I would think of as encyclopedic. Slambo (Speak)  11:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Thomas the Tank Engine Merchandising Articles
Please don't groan! If you look at Articles for deletion/Thomas Tomy Wind Ups you will see that a whole raft of articles listing 'Thomas' merchandising have been slated for deletion. WP:THOMAS members have been fretting over this issue for a while, and it seems to have come to a head.

I am inclined to agree that the pages should be deleted, as they are essentially just lists at present, but the people who are editing them are likely to want to continue to do so, and there is some merit to their content, even if they need a lot of work. Hence I have suggested that the appropriate place for these listings might be 'Train Spotting World'. Seeing as how I've just found your name over there too (and quite active!!) it seemed appropriate to see whether you thought it might be an appropriate course of action. If it is, may I ask for your help in copying sufficient articles from one Wiki to the other (as I would only know the long way of doing it!) so that we can complete the tidy-up in WP in a sensible time?

Thoughts? EdJogg 14:36, 28 February 2007 (UTC)