Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Miscellaneous/2014 May 29

= May 29 =

Downloading very large forum topics as some sort of document
I want to download a number of forum topics from an invisionfree forum, preferably as documents or something readable. They're really long, bordering on like 230 pages each, so I don't want to go through with Copy-paste unless there's no easier way. What would be the best way for me to do this? 98.27.255.223 (talk) 08:30, 26 May 2014 (UTC)


 * You should close this and ask it again at computing where you'd probably already have gotten an answer. μηδείς (talk) 04:00, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * They already did: Reference_desk/Computing Rojomoke (talk) 04:25, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


 * If it's still live there it should not have been posted here. μηδείς (talk) 19:20, 29 May 2014 (UTC)

Metro lines crossing themselves
I notice that Line 1 (Naples Metro) crosses over itself mid-route. I am aware that the Tyne and Wear Metro Yellow line also crosses over itself. Do any other metro/subway/underground systems do this? I would not count, for example, the Heathrow loop on London's Piccadilly line, as it rejoins itself without really crossing (track layout notwithstanding). —Nelson Ricardo (talk) 18:44, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * It appears to me that London's Northern line does so in the neighborhood of Camden Town tube station (see the diagram headed "since 1924" in the sidebar below the infobox in that article); but I'm not actually familiar with the tube, so I can't be sure. Deor (talk) 19:56, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * At Camden Town itself, the Northern pretty much joins up and then diverges again. The spot where the line actually crosses itself is just north of Euston - Mornington Crescent is on the eastern arm, not the western as the map shows, but the lines swap sides. AlexTiefling (talk) 21:25, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * But this is not "crossing itself" in the manner of the line in Naples. Rather, the line splits into two branches that then cross each other.  (The reason for this, by the way, is that the two branches originated as separate lines owned by different companies, and when the second of them reached Euston there was no intention to extend it to join with the other, so it was not built in the correct alignment to join up there.)  I'm not aware of any other line anywhere that makes an actual loop like in Naples. --69.158.92.137 (talk) 01:59, 30 May 2014 (UTC), edited 05:12, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Oh, but I just thought of a real one&mdash;in the past. When the first east-west line of the Toronto subway was opened in 1966, for the first 6 months the system was integrated so that there were three train routes serving all three possible pairings of the system's three endpoints.  And the Eglinton–Woodbine (or Danforth–University–Yonge) route crossed itself at Bloor-Yonge station, stopping each time through the station.  But after the 6 months, the integrated service was withdrawn and that route ceased to exist. --69.158.92.137 (talk) 03:26, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you.—Nelson Ricardo (talk) 05:32, 30 May 2014 (UTC)
 * I've just checked out the Tyne and Wear situation, and our article on Monument Metro station tells me that the only other place in the world where this happens at a station is at Commercial-Broadway Station on the Millennium Line in Vancouver. I'm still trying to recall if there are other places where it happens away from stations. AlexTiefling (talk) 22:29, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * There appears to be a small crossover - like the Northern Line one - on the Paris RER A, close to Nanterre Universit&eacute; station - the line through the station (A1) crosses over the line it has just diverged from (A3/A5). It's only non-trivial because the station is on the opposite side of the crossover from the remainder of the branch. Similarly, the D4 between Moulin-Galant and Mennecy crosses the D2 between Villab&eacute; and Le Plessis-Chenet - both lines having diverged at Corbeil Essonnes, the stop before Moulin-Galant. AlexTiefling (talk) 22:47, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you. —Nelson Ricardo (talk) 01:03, 30 May 2014 (UTC)

Here's one more, suggested by a friend of mine. The elevated Yurikamome line is not part of the Tokyo Metro system, but may reasonably be termed "a metro line" and it does cross itself here. Looking at views of the area, I think what's going on is that there was a complicated existing multi-level road layout and it was easier to have the transit line follow a three-quarter-circle ramp of an existing road than to make a direct curve onto the bridge. In this view the transit line is two levels above ground and one level above the camera, but as you go around the curve the road and transit levels converge and then loop around to come onto the lower deck of the bridge, two levels above the camera at the starting point. Whee. --69.158.92.137 (talk) 22:44, 1 June 2014 (UTC)

Appropriate Article Page?
I am on the board of directors for Recovery Coaches International a non-profit organization providing information for and about recovery coaching. RCI recently launched the first step in a nation wide credentialing process for Recovery Coaches. Is "Recovery Coaches International" an appropriate topic to write a page about?

http://www.recoverycoaching.org/

thanksJjansen20 (talk) 21:52, 29 May 2014 (UTC)


 * Probably not, especially when one of the organization's officers is asking; see WP:NOT and WP:COI. Maybe the article Recovery coaching ought to mention RCI; the place to raise that question is Talk:Recovery coaching. —Tamfang (talk) 02:16, 30 May 2014 (UTC)