User talk:Willkm

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cherwell valley
I appreciate your argument that the Cherwell Valley is not in SW England. I have included it on that template to make navigation easier, since it connects the GWML with the midlands. there is a lot a traffic that goes on the cherwell route, including freightliners - perhaps there are route clearance issues on the cheltenham route. I can easily remove it from the template if it is a problem. This also raises the question of where to put the Thames branchlines. They should probably go with the GWML, but again aren't technically in the SW. Perhaps "Great Western" zone would be a better description of the area covered? What do you think? Our Phellap 23:43, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I see what you mean. Just seemed a bit odd when I saw it! Yes, a Great Western "zone" would probably be better. I think something along the lines of BR regions would go well, although it would end up with some of them fairly big... What do you reckon? Willkm 00:21, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Victoria Line
Thanks for pointing that out. I managed to read the diff the wrong way round - it had previously been "southwest to northeast" which isn't really correct, and the revision I reverted had actually *fixed* that. Oops. I've put it back the way it should be and chastised myself suitably in the log message..

(And yeah, nice userboxes!) --Mpk 13:27, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

Wow!
Great work on the TGV article! In case you don't know this, it's scheduled to appear on the main page in a few days time. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:51, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Precisely! that's how I made up my username - both myself and my flatmate thought it was very amusing at the time. I originally created a throw away account on Kuro5hin, but ended up keeping it. Then when I transferred to Wikipedia, I brought the username with me :-) Ta bu shi da yu 04:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism on TGV
Well, I did not expect a vandalism/silly edit within 15 minutes on the apperance on the front page, though... although the person who made the edit may have done it in good faith &mdash; what he wrote is a literal translation of Train à Grande Vitesse, just a bit too literal ;-) Anyway, there will probably be quite a bit of work like this in the next 23.5 hours... Schutz 00:25, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Got it
Okay, gotcha. Let me try to reword that bit. Killdevil 00:16, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

TGV edits
I was endeavouring simply to make minor corrections to usage (redundant hyphens, omitted diacritical marks, omitted or redundant function words, misspellings, etc.). I have no idea why Service needs to be spelt with an uppercase S any more than I know why Hulk Hogan films need to be discussed, or why some pig needs to post obscene pictures there (Why pick on the TGV article, I wonder? Is the Barbra Streisand article getting to busy?) Anyway, I think the uppercase S was inadvertently reinstated as the result of an editing conflict. Sorry about that. I notice that you and one or two others have been relentlessly reëditing that page this evening (it is evening for me, anyway). I might question some of the edits (although not the vandalism reversion, of course) as they don't seem to change very much (for instance, I thought it was already quite clear that it was hard to read trackside signals the way it was worded when I edited it). But anyway... Kelisi 04:02, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

TGVweb to Wikipedia
That's excellent news; congratulations on this. I'm happy to help (although it may have to wait for a few days). As for the permission emails, I don't need them personaly, but you can look on Confirmation of permission for the right procedure to follow. Schutz 00:29, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I am sure that if you have an email covering the whole website, that could do the job. Only important thing is not to forget to credit the source; maybe in the edit summary of the first edit (copy/paste the text, save with the right summary, and then edit), and, of course, on thep age itself (for example on the model if Template:FOLDOC).

Winchester College
In what way "wrong sort of house system"? Is it not, as the article explains, a case of: "Historically it was associated with established public schools, where a 'house' referred to a dormitory."? If it differs at Winchester, an explanation would be helpful, if you're in a position to provide one. Man vyi 16:03, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Lux facta est! Your explanation of the hybrid system at Winchester could usefully be added to the article, if you wouldn't mind doing it. Thanks! Meanwhile, I'll try to tweak boarding house and house system. Man vyi 16:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Circle Line
Hi. Do you have a cite for the claim about Circle Line trains being turned at Whitechapel to minimise tyre wear? I'd be surprised if this was really an issue, because as the C Stock is shared between the District, H&C and Circle an individual unit would get plenty of different duties which would spread the wear out anyway. From what I understand, individual unit diagrams are virtually never simply 'from depot in morning, round and round the circle line, stable in the evening'. Circle trains regularly become H&C trains and vice versa over the course of the traffic day. --Mpk 10:00, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
 * The Circle page on CULG mentions transferring stock between the Circle and the H&S service in the evenings. I guess this does make sense for trains going out of service in particular, as there's no way for an Outer Rail train on the Circle to get to Hammersmith without reversing anyway. So if you can make a Circle train into an H&C train, you get to both strengthen the H&C in the evenings and get the train back to Hammersmith in a more or less elegant manner. --Mpk 18:06, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Train operating company
This is currently undergoing a merge proposal. Simply south 16:57, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

FA Review
TGV has been nominated for FA review. As I see you're one of the main editors, I think you should be notified. Noble Story (talk) 02:23, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

TGV
Great work on many of the TGV articles... I was expecting a wasteland on EN which needed to be translated but a lot of it is here already. gren グレン 17:57, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

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Nomination of Fawkham Junction for deletion
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