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Union Pacific Railroad edits

A comment on your recent edit: Eliminated "employs 42,600 people." UP will be laying off 750 workers mostly in Omaha.. A better way to handle this than simply deleting the number is to state "as of <date>, employed nnnnn people", which still gives an indication of the size of the company. Regards, Tarl N. (discuss) 13:13, 17 August 2017 (UTC)

Please provide reliable sources for your edits

Hello, I'm 32.218.45.74. I noticed that you made a change to an article, but you didn't provide a reliable source. It's been removed and archived in the page history for now, but if you'd like to include a citation and re-add it, please do so! If you need guidance on referencing, please see the referencing for beginners tutorial, or if you think I made a mistake, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thank you. 32.218.45.74 (talk) 22:09, 29 August 2017 (UTC)

September 2017

Please do not add or change content, as you did at Union Pacific Railroad, without citing a reliable source. Please review the guidelines at Wikipedia:Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you. 32.218.41.170 (talk) 18:17, 17 September 2017 (UTC)

Please stop your disruptive editing. If you continue to vandalize Wikipedia, as you did with this edit to Union Pacific Corporation, you may be blocked from editing. Operator873^CONNECT 00:12, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Hello editor, From reviewing your edit history, and the comments above, it appears you are quite knowledgeable about railroad history, but thing got off on the wrong foot. I'm reading the changes made to Southern Pacific Railroad and they mimic the changes made to the article Union Pacific Railroad that drove the above comments. I understand you are trying to be helpful, and hope you will stick around, we need the help. However, please take a step back with some of the paranthetical's you want to add. For example, when discussing something that was abolished there is no need to add "(legacy)" especially in the lead section or infobox where space and brevity are issues. In short, we want and need railroad experts, but for the purposes of leads and infoboxes, the principle is keep them short, simple and to the point. I.E. what would a martian who crash landed into earth and found a sign that said "Southern Pacific Railroad" need to know, that's what goes in the infobox and lead section. Any details above and beyond that can and are explained farther down the article. Cheers, Dave (talk) 07:43, 6 November 2017 (UTC)

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