User talk:TiffaF

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Be Bold!!
You can find me at my user page or talk page for any questions. Happy editing, and we'll see ya 'round. Jo e  I  13:56, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

Hello TiffaF. I notice you do not have a user page yet. It's great having one - you can put userboxes and all kinds of things on there. You don't have to, but I just thought I'd remind you that you can. BTW, it's located here. Check out my user page for a good example on a basic userpage. Auroranorth 13:30, 17 October 2006 (UTC) talk to moi

EU Driving licences
Regarding your edit to Driver's license on 19th April when you said that EU drivers moving to another EU country have to exchange their driving licences, citing the section on the British driving licence application form for exchanges, this is incorrect. EU drivers moving to the UK have the option of exchanging their licences for a British one at any time, but they are not required to exchange their original licence which remains valid until age 70 in the case of ordinary car licences. See direct.gov.uk. Regards, -Arwel (talk) 23:02, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, but Switzerland is not part of the EU, so it's not surprising that you were not covered by the mutual recognition arrangement when you moved there. If you take a look at the UK government site I linked to before, you'll see that Switzerland is not listed there. Regards, -- Arwel (talk) 15:36, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Template:Reserve currencies
Hi TiffaF, I just added my answer to your questions on my own talk page, if that's ok with you. Cheers, MikeZ 05:20, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Re:Your bot and the Basel airport article
Hi, That wasnt a bot edit, it was actually my fault, manually assisted editing for you.

It didnt break the template, but the better place really to have it, is the nativename-r, so i've moved it

Thanks for pointing it out,

Will try and make sure i dont do that acidentally again!!

Reedy Boy 18:45, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Narrow gauge railway
Hi TiffaF, thanks for the reply on my talk page - much appreciated.

The images were originally on the right of the sections. Unfortunately this can also lead to a lot of wasted space. If the text of the section is short but there are two images, we get a lot of excess space. Take a look, for example at this previous version or this one. This creates ugly whitespace problems, which I was hoping to cure by moving the images underneath the text.

The other advantage of having the picture below is the text is always consistently laid out. With pictures to the right, the text of entries without pictures is narrower than the text of those with pictures. With the pictures below, the text is always the same width.

Regarding the Bad Bubendorf picture. I think you are right that the article tends to have a British-centric viewpoint, though it has improved vastly in the last year or so. The issue of portraying narrow gauge railways as purely a "heritage railway" phenomenon is an important one. Unfortunately the truth is the majority of narrow gauge railways in existence today (by number, if not by mileage of track) are preserved railways, so to some extent the article is going to reflect that. I like the lead picture we have now because even though it is of the preserved Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, it shows a scene that is typical of the industrial railway atmosphere that was the origin of many narrow gauge lines.

The other issue, of a more practical nature, is its very hard to arrange the top of the article with more than one lead photo. The rail gauge infobox and the table of contents intrude on the right and left, so its hard to find a way to include a second photo without creating either a very unattractive layout and/or a lot of whitespace. I'd certainly support moving the Bad Bubendorf picture to the top if we can find a way to do so that doesn't disrupt the layout too much.

Best, Gwernol 16:38, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Re: Building Societies and specifically Cheshunt Building Society
I thought that list was meant to be inclusive, so when I spot an omission I fix it. I work on the principle that Wiki is a collective effort, so when I spot something I know to be wrong, I change it. Sometimes I forget to log in - sorry TiffaF (talk) 07:50, 5 January 2009 (UTC)


 * It's a very incomplete list. No problem with you adding it if you think it's relevant/interesting.  But just pointing out that it would be a very long list indeed if all mergers which have ever happened were added to it, and if so the BSA is the best source. MarkyMarkD (talk) 10:55, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Units in GDP per Capita maps
It's in US dollars. GDP per capita is just the overall GDP divided by the population in the same given year. Sbw01f (talk) 13:18, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Clock-face scheduling
Thanks for your message. I have responded at Talk:Clock-face scheduling to both of your comments. Bahnfrend (talk) 12:38, 29 October 2012 (UTC)

Rapid Transit
Good evening Tiffa. If you read the talk page (admittedly hiding somewhere in archives), this article was established by users in order to refer to the specific US definition of Rapid Transit. There are several archived discussions about it even prior to my own involvement. The name of the article, and the subject of the article is about the concept that is Rapid Transit which is an American term but Rapid Transit is not actually referred to (from my limited investigations) by anyone outside of the US education establishments or official organisations. Rapid Transit isn't actually the predominant term used in the US to refer to any particular service (i.e. nobody gets on the Washington Rapid Transit) so your first sentence was misleading / unclear.

Long story short, the sheer volume of variants of specific types of Rapid Transit (11+ just under Terminology, with some sharing the same name but meaning different things) leads to confusion, particularly when not all European services meet the definition of Rapid Transit by American standards. Hence why I am / was trying to keep it clearer in the intro and hopefully avoid edit wars that always seem to subsequently appear.

In truth, the issue is that the original articles were based upon a messy mismatch of British / Euro / US terms with the definition from the APTA Fact book. Whether or not Rapid Transit is the correct reference at all is unclear as APTA considers it to be a subsection of Heavy Rail (which has a different UK Definition I believe);


 * Heavy Rail is a mode of transit service (also called metro, subway, rapid transit, or rapid rail) operating on an electric railway with the capacity for a heavy volume of traffic. It is characterized by high speed and rapid acceleration passenger rail cars operating singly or in multi-car trains on fixed rails; separate rights-of-way from which all other vehicular and foot traffic are excluded; sophisticated signaling, and high platform loading.

It's possible several linked articles all need tidying up accordingly. Koncorde (talk) 00:25, 9 October 2014 (UTC)


 * Oh, just to clear up why it's even muddier than the above, APTA provides different definitions elsewhere


 * Rapid Transit: Rail or motorbus transit service operating completely separate from all modes of transportation on an exclusive right of way


 * Which barely conforms to the definition given in several articles.


 * Rail, Heavy: An electric railway with the capacity for a "heavy volume" of traffic and characterized by exclusive rights-of-way, multi-car trains, high speed and rapid acceleration, sophisticated signaling and high platform loading. Also known as "Rapid Rail", "Subway", "elevated (railway)" or "metropolitan railway (metro)".


 * So Rapid Transit is distinct from Rapid Rail which is a subtype of Heavy Rail etc. So even the primary sources are a mess on the subject. Koncorde (talk) 00:32, 9 October 2014 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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World Map of Mains Voltages and Frequencies
I've updated the map, it will take some time to be updated throughout the wikis. --Pownerus (talk) 21:35, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Thank you (biometric symbol)
Thank you for replying to my question about the meaning of the Biometric Symbol in Talk:Identity document in August last year; I only saw your reply explaining the symbol today and I am grateful for the information. My question and your reply are now archived so I had to go to that talk page history to see if anyone had replied and, indeed, you had. Thank you. O&#39;Dea (talk) 02:00, 16 April 2022 (UTC)