User talk:Slambo/Archives/2014/December

Trains portal "Did you know" item
Thank you for promoting my Portal:Trains/Did you know candidate about the India Point Railroad Bridge. Note, however, the photo is not of the original bridge but that of a successor completed in 1902. I cannot find an image of the original with a free license, though. Waz8:T-C-E 02:12, 3 December 2014 (UTC)

Category:Rail transport articles in need of updating
Hi, I notice that you are dropping into the middle of article text,  - this seems to be always associated with a template like. There are problems with this. If people remove the preceding template, they may not realise that the category should be removed too. If text is moved around, the cat may become separated from the template. There are also bots that gather up any categories found in the main text, and move them to the bottom in accordance with WP:FOOTERS. I think that it would be better to build the categorisation into the template, either by amending the template itself, or by creating a wrapper template which contains  plus that category. -- Red rose64 (talk) 23:16, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
 * update after includes a parameter for the category, but both update and update inline are currently coded without a category parameter. Rather than update those heavily used templates, I went for the easy solution of just adding the category right after the template calls.  I thought about putting the category at the end, but thought it would be more obvious to other editors to remove it when it's right next to the template.  A wrapper template around those two templates that includes the category call may be the better solution after all, especially considering the bots that will autoclean and move categories to the end.  Slambo (Speak)  04:59, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * For example, . -- Red rose64 (talk) 10:21, 20 December 2014 (UTC)

I did a quick search for other projects that may have created wrappers around update or update inline, but found none. I think the best solution will be to amend these two templates to include an optional project-specific category parameter, so I've raised the issue on the relevant talk pages. Slambo (Speak) 16:29, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Or they simply remove all of the instances of the cat, as with by  -- Red rose64 (talk) 12:04, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Whoops! Sorry! Thanks for reverting! &mdash; kikichugirl  speak up! 20:55, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

There has been no further discussion on the template talk pages after my requests, so I'll continue with adding the category manually for now (but at the end of articles as noted). Slambo (Speak) 18:59, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Which will be worse, because there will be nothing to associate the cat with the template. -- Red rose64 (talk) 20:41, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Palsgraf
the case history etc seems to indicate that the Appellate Division dismissed the complain which I believe is not the case. I think it was 3-2 upholding the trial court. The COA then reversed the two lower courts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrpete3.5 (talk • contribs) 12:36, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi, thanks for the feedback. I assume you're referring to the article Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. My only edits to that article were to add and update categories; I have not edited the text, and I am not very familiar with the case, let alone legal proceedings. I'm going to copy your note to the article's talk page where it will have more relevance and is more likely to be seen by editors who are familiar with it. Slambo (Speak) 14:30, 26 December 2014 (UTC)

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