User talk:Slambo/Archives/2009/March

A-Class discussion
Hi, we're starting the discussion on A-Class here today, thanks for signing up! I hope you can present your views. Thanks, Walkerma (talk) 07:59, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Henry E. Huntington - Plagiarism
I noticed you've contributed frequently to many of the articles on the big 4. As I was going through Charles Crocker page last night I noticed about 80% of it was lifted word for word. I removed all the plagiarism. Today I noticed the same on the Henry E. Huntington page with the added bonus that it contained circular referencing (its source cited wikipedia as its source). Its hard to tell from the source article if it is saying the source of all its information is wikipedia or just a single paragraph. I thought you might want to take a look. Here are the sources for each

http://www.asiaing.com/henry-e.-huntington-and-the-creation-of-southern-california.html Henry E. Huntington

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/crocker.htm Charles Crocker Jgeddis (talk) 10:02, 1 March 2009 (UTC)


 * It looks like rail history is dear to you based on what I see on your talk page. I also just noticed this page was listed as 'start class'. I'll do my best to take the time to work on fleshing out Henry E. Huntington's page this week as I live and grew up down the street from his house ;) I've read numerous books on him and 'the big four' and know he deserves much more than a couple paragraphs.Jgeddis (talk) 06:01, 2 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Of course, after I hit "save" is when I notice your preference for discussion threads..  Slambo (Speak)  14:08, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

Very very long time no speak
Trust you are well and surviving wikipedia after all this time - I recently have found a group of friends who meet with other enthusiasts which include engine drivers who have worked on the nullabor/pacific national diesels who share slide evenings with their slides - and it has encouraged me to dig into my very hidden collection of photos from a very long time ago - who knows all the Western Australia and Tasmania articles I used to dabble in might even get some piccies by 2010 :) - cheers SatuSuro 13:24, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

File:BN 9918 19920900 IL Eola.jpg
Just to let you know that I recently copied the above image that you uploaded to Wikipedia over to WikiMedia Commons, the Wikimedia central media repository for all free media. The image had been tagged with the Copy to Wikimedia Commons template. Your image is now available to all Wikimedia projects at the following location: Commons:File:BN 9918 19920900 IL Eola.jpg. The original version of the image uploaded to Wikipedia has been tagged with WP:CSD. Cheers! -- 18:41, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Concern about another users edits
Sean, could you take a look at the contributions of ? It seems to me that either they are attempting to promote the website www.american-rails.com, or that it has become their favorite reference, as they seem to add a reference with external link to this website on each and every article they edit.

Personally, I have found this website to be worse than worthless in my research, popping up on yahoo or google VERY frequently, but seldom providing anything in the way of useful roster or build information (but containing the word "roster" on many of its non-roster pages, and only showing "preserved" engines on many of its roster pages). It seems to exist to provide revenue to its owner by way of the "google ads" placed on each and every one of it's pages.

If you could take the time to check this out, it would be greatly appreciated. I'd say something to Alco83 myself, but fear that anything I say would suffer from an acute lack of tact. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 18:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)