User talk:Slambo/Archives/2008/August

Orphaned non-free media (Image:KCSM logo.jpg)
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RailGauge - Spain Portugal
could you copy paste three lines? Template_talk:RailGauge ? TrackConnect (talk) 10:25, 19 July 2008 (UTC)

Template:RailGauge Conversion corrections
Please correct the conversions of the following templates as per List of rail gauges as follows See also the templates below, where the difference is taken into account!!! The present situation is somewhat absurd. Peter Horn 00:24, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
 * (1664 mm = 5 ft 5½ in)
 *  (1668 mm = 5 ft 5$5/6$ in) (= 5 $2/3$ in))
 * (1672 mm = 5 ft 5⅞ in) (= 5$5/6$ in)
 * (1520 mm = 4 ft 11$5/6$ in) from List of rail gauges Peter Horn 00:40, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

Just a quick ack right now that I've seen this note. I saw the changes that were made last week, but didn't look very closely at them yet. I hope to take some time tomorrow to look into this further. Slambo (Speak) 10:37, 26 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Some corrections:

Peter Horn 01:42, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
 *  (1668 mm = 5 ft 5$2/3$ in)
 * (1672 mm = 5 ft 5$5/6$ in)

TWP redirects
You've made what I believe to be a serious mistake in adding wikiproject tags.

For example, on Talk:Railroad, the tags have to be after the #redirect, if they should be there at all, rather than replacing the redirect. &mdash; Arthur Rubin (talk) 16:55, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

British Bangladeshi
Hi there, I nominated the article British Bangladeshi some time ago as a Good Article, and would you be able to please review the page to see whether it falls into the criteria, or Review the page. Thank you. M Miah (talk) 12:51, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

WP:CHICAGO
According to my records, you have nominated at least one article (Grand Central Station (Chicago) & Pioneer Zephyr) that includes a category at WP:CHIBOTCATS and that has been promoted to WP:FA, WP:FL or WP:GA. You are not signed up as an active member of WP:CHICAGO. If you consider yourself either an active or semi-active member of the project please sign up as such at WikiProject Chicago/members. Also, if you are a member, be aware of Meetup/Chicago 3 and be advised that the project is now trying to keep all the project's WP:PR, WP:FAC, WP:FAR, WP:GAR, WP:GAC WP:FLC, WP:FLRC, WP:FTC, WP:FPOC, WP:FPC, and WP:AFD discussion pages in one location at the new WikiProject Chicago/Review page. Please help add any discussion you are aware of at this location.--TonyTheTiger (t/c/bio/WP:CHICAGO/WP:LOTM) 19:30, 11 August 2008 (UTC)

image tag
oops, i've done this rather a lot... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stethomson90 (talk • contribs) 09:46, August 12, 2008

Tram and talk:Tram
Being subjected on my name and reference, I remembered a discussion of nearly a year ago in September, where you're helping me with half a dozen tramarticles. So I mentioned your expertise on said pages. Still high esteem so faithfully yours: D.A. Borgdorff etc. 86.83.155.44 (talk) 23:16, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Image on SR N15X class article.
Hello. The above article is on hold pending the resolution of a problem regarding the licensing of the image. I'm wondering whether you would like to take a look and see what you think. As usual, there are no free images available online, and the chances of one coming up anytime soon are pretty slim. I would be most grateful if you could help to resolve this issue one way or another (I suspect that the licensing may be wrong, but I'm not overly sure). Thank you, --Bulleid Pacific (talk) 23:32, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter
Sorry about the delay. AWB has been having a few issues lately. Here is the august issue of the WikiProject Good Articles Newsletter! Dr. Cash (talk) 20:50, 19 August 2008 (UTC)

German railway articles
Hi Slambo,

How do I add the German railway articles I have created (and any others that may have been missed) to the list of project articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Recent changes? Thanks in advance. --Bermicourt (talk) 09:30, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Spelt/spelled
Both are correct English as the past tense of spell, please check any dictionary, such as www.dictionary.com. Spelt is by far the most common version in Britain at least, as I can't speak for anywhere else. Please check such things before you change them - both are acceptable. Boleyn (talk) 18:41, 20 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I appreciate taking the time to comment politely, but as someone who has to live with a gluten-free diet for life, "spelt" will always be a grain in my mind. I feel this really isn't worth arguing about, so I consider the discussion ended.  Slambo (Speak)  18:56, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

John Bull (locomotive) FAR
John Bull (locomotive) has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. Halgin (talk) 00:27, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone else added some comments on a three images at Featured article review/John Bull (locomotive). It looks like two of them have been taken care of. One of them is on Image:John Bull at the Smithsonian, 1920.jpg which you uploaded. Halgin (talk) 00:32, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads-up. I must have missed it on my watch list over the weekend.  Slambo (Speak)  10:53, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
 * It is off the review list. I added it to the today's featured article requests page for Sep 15. Halgin (talk) 00:10, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Lists of named passenger trains
I've been working on the Lists of named passenger trains: after merging the info from the List of passenger trains into its sub-lists, I ended up moving those sub-lists to a consistent naming scheme of List of named passenger trains of X. Most of these are not tagged with TWP: as you're the expert on this, could you fix this when you get the chance? Thanks, --RFBailey (talk) 03:38, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Assessment of German railway articles
Hi Slambo,

Thanks for all your hard work in putting the WikiProject Trains box on various German railway articles. I was beginning to plan this and have even put some proposed criteria here WikiProject Trains/Rail transport in Germany task force/Importance criteria. I did this partly to help me get my mind around it. Looks like I wasn't too far wrong as your assessments pretty well match! Thanks again --Bermicourt (talk) 10:05, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

Employes
Good catch! Chris the speller (talk) 19:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Template needed?
Hi, why do you think the template on Transrapid is necessary to the reader? Kind regards, Templatehater (talk) 11:25, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

FRN
Cheers for the heads-up on the usage of FRN in the article Railfan. My mistake, apologies. Srushe (talk) 10:53, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Guidelines for rail terminology
Hi Slambo,

Forgive my ignorance because I'm relatively new to this game, but is there a set of guidelines for how we name things? I've been trying to tidy up articles and categories linked to German railways (mainly) and have come across some conundrums (or is it conundra?).

One obvious area of potential difficulty is the different terminology between English-speaking countries. For example, I had no idea that open wagons are called 'gondolas' in the US. In Europe, the only gondolas are ferrying tourists around the waterways of Venice! Redirection is part of the answer, but sensible, neutral naming can also help. E.g. 'Tender locomotive' (which was actually about tenders, not locos) was recently renamed to 'Tender (railroad car)' which reflects US usage. However 'Tender (rail)' is probably just as good and reflects common usage.

Another area is simply coherence. Why have 'Firebox (locomotive)', 'Pantograph (rail)', 'Cylinder (steam locomotive)', 'Tender (railroad car)' and 'Buffer (rail transport)'? Why not have all locomotive-related items that need disambiguation called 'xxxx (locomotive)' and all general railway/railroad terms called 'xxx (rail)'? I'm over-simplifying a bit, I know, but you get the idea.

Sorry a bit of a ramble! --Bermicourt (talk) 16:08, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

John Bull TFA nomination
As you've done such a good job bringing this article back up to FA standard, you may be interested to know that it is currently being proposed to being the main page featured article for 15 September - see Today's featured article/requests —  Tivedshambo  (t/c) 14:49, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up that TrainsWikiProject goes in the talk area :), I've moved the same for 1215 to user talk as well... Grey3k (talk) 13:42, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

I updated the the blurb on John Bull (locomotive), for TFA request. I figure you were also interested in seeing this as a TFA and would support it. Halgin (talk) 20:43, 29 August 2008 (UTC)