User talk:Redrose64/responses

Talkback

{{talkback|OllieFury}} Do you have my talk page on your watchlist? Just to be safe...! Oliver Fury, Esq. message • contributions 20:32, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

I watch every page I amend until nothing further occurs --Redrose64 (talk) 22:07, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

re: Can't find icons

I have added my revisions in your sandbox. Hope they help. But next time you may post your request in the project talk:Route diagram template so more users will know your situation. Anyway you're welcome. -- Sameboat - 同舟 (talk) 03:45, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Apology

Apologies- regret error in removing text on Barton Stacey station. Since you issued your comment I have since found reference elsewhere to it. I am endeavouring to update the "disused stations" section for you and to correct errors in the text. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.25.251.141 (talk) 09:00, 2 September 2009 (UTC)

Image v File

When visiting toolserver, there is what I consider to be a daily list with double images/files. When I got it right, images on the different wiki should be replaced, one by one by a commons (file). Correct me if I am wrong. Ida Shaw (talk) 16:30, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

I guess, if in a later stage all images on the different wiki will be on commons, there will be no need of the images anymore. Maybe right now just to keep track by the administrators looking into this. I feel sure, if I am doing something wrong here, an administrator would have informed me already. Ida Shaw (talk) 16:41, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

More imagey stuff

The rest of the above disjointed conversation is at User talk:Ida Shaw#Image vs File, User talk:Magnus Manske#Images from Commons and at User talk:Axpde#Image vs File. They don't help much, but poking around elsewhere it seems that Image: and File: are synonyms, although File: is newer. Most help page examples still show Image: - and indeed several help pages ignore File: entirely. See Help:Files, Wikipedia:Namespace#Aliases, Wikipedia:Images (talk), Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons#Embedding Commons' media in Wikipedia articles, Commons:Commons:First steps/Reuse section Embedding Commons' media in Wikimedia projects, Wikipedia:Extended image syntax. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:53, 3 October 2009 (UTC)

Talkback II

{{talkback|HappyInGeneral|Template:Combi|ts=19:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)}} Thank you! HappyInGeneral (talk) 19:26, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

Sources with multiple authors

FYI and reference, I copied our discussion over to Talk:Blood pressure #Sources with multiple authors. Best regards, --Bob K31416 (talk) 15:39, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Yesterday's meetup

I don't belive so. Most of the discussion was about the editing we were doing and maps.©Geni 16:12, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Curved viaducts

Hi. I don't know if you noticed my reply to your question about curved viaducts on my talk page. MegaPedant (talk) 21:44, 19 October 2009 (UTC)

 Done Redrose64 (talk) 08:16, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Talkback III

{{talkback|Talk:Ares I-X|ts=23:46, 29 October 2009 (UTC)}} GW… 23:46, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

Charwelton (and others)

Hi Redrose64

Just seen your edits. Thanks - I was going to do that myself but you just beat me to it.

I've also added some info on the ironstone line. Just got to work out how to provide a source for it.

I'm also working my way through other stations on the Great Central Main Line in similar fashion - I've been absolutely fascinated by this line for years, walked from Aylesbury to Woodhouse, Sheffield in 6 days in 1978 (I was young then), saw part of Brackley Viaduct being blown up later in the year, managed to walk through Catesby Tunnel in just 40 minutes in 1980. (I am also quite mad!)

Regards Tonythepixel (talk) 19:05, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Might I suggest

• Tonks, Eric (1988). "Northern Group: The Northamptonshire Quarries: Charwelton Quarries". Part II The Oxfordshire Field. The Ironstone Quarries of the Midlands. Cheltenham: Runpast. pp. 124–136. ISBN 1 870754 02 6. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

--Redrose64 (talk) 19:18, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Charwelton again

Hi Redrose64

I don't own a copy, though it is higly likely that it will contain the info given in the Wikipedia article; alternatively it should perhaps be recommended for further reading. I have listed another source that I have seen online that definitely does give some of the info.

Although I've been creating/editing Wikipedia articles for a while now, it's only recently that I'm getting more into the "technicalities" of it, including the provision of references and sources etc. I shied away from this for some time which I hold my hands up to, but I'm now taking the bull by the horns so to speak. There's a good bit to learn, and I'm at an age now when my mind isn't as sharp as it once was, but one way or another I'll get there!

All the best, hope we can keep in touch.

Regards Tonythepixel (talk) 21:21, 7 November 2009 (UTC)

Charwelton (sources)

Hi Redrose64

The info I put in about the Charwelton ironstone line came from three websites (I've taken the time to search for these and give their web addresses, so we can hopefully get this right):

www.irsociety.co.uk/Archives/21/Ironstone_7.htm

www.steamindex.com/brj/brj5.htm

www.subbrit.org.uk/sb-sites/stations/c/charwelton/index.shtml

Perhaps these should be given as the sources and Eric Tonks' work recommended "for further reading". I'm simply trying to avoid having you spend time searching for things when really it should be me doing that.

Remember - I'm still learning!

Kind regards Tonythepixel (talk) 22:11, 8 November 2009 (UTC)

Section heading style

Whichever you like. On the whole SmackBot leaves these alone, certainly for its main task of dating maintenance tags. The substantial majority of headers in articles have no extra spaces, presumably in analogy to other delimiters like () {} <> but if you use the new-section tab you will get spaces, so I would conclude editors in general prefer without - though I have heard both points of view. Rich Farmbrough, 14:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC).

Reading Railway Station

I've now belatedly responded to your query of a couple of weeks ago on my talk page. -- chris_j_wood (talk) 21:30, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

Brackley

I've removed the WP:Crystal tag which you gave to the "future" section of Brackley Central. I've added in a few refs backing up the reopening claims, in particular for a station at Brackley. Lamberhurst (talk) 17:49, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I'd seen that section some months ago, with the occasional (mostly harmless) tweak from IP editors; but a cluster of edits today (also IP) kind-of kicked me into action: I felt that it was time to do something about it. I didn't simply strike the lot because there could have been grains of truth - which you have been able to locate. However, reopening to Leicester is less, not more, likely following the demolition of the viaduct there (see The Railway Magazine, January 2010, p.8 "Woman chains herself to Great Central bridge") - a students' leisure centre is apparently to be built on the site. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:34, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Quite right: read (and see) all about it at Braunstone Gate Bridge, except that I haven't put in the latest news. Lamberhurst (talk) 21:19, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Talkback IV

{{Talkback|Sabrebd}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabrebd (talk • contribs) 18:32, 12 December 2009

Re:Former F1 drivers

1. Juan Manuel Fangio at the 1950 British Grand Prix.

2. 1950 British Grand Prix, 13th May.

4 points, I believe? Far, far, too easy, I didn't even look them up... WilliamF1two (talk) 17:59, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I did hope that it was the sort of thing people would know straight off! You're the first back with the answer - I was also hoping for a mention of Silverstone on the second, but there you go. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:59, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Clifton railway station

Alternatively needs to be a diambig page with Clifton moved to Clifton railway station, Greater Manchester NtheP (talk) 19:03, 4 January 2010 (UTC)

Cudworth locos

If you read the James Cudworth (engineer) article, you'll see that the locos were rebuilt. Is it possible that the E1 class were the rebuilds of the 118 class? Mjroots (talk) 18:26, 16 January 2010 (UTC)

I've done a bit of tidying re the tables. Also, I think I've fixed a ref (Bradley 15, which I take to mean Bradley, p15). If this is incorrect please correct as necessary. Mjroots (talk) 08:39, 21 January 2010 (UTC)

Are you still expanding the locomotives section, the tag is holding up the DYK nom. Mjroots (talk) 09:26, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

The refs are a bit of a mix of styles. Can you sort them out similar to the Hawkhurst Branch Line article please? (Still awaiting the GA assessment there, currently 17th on list). Mjroots (talk) 11:30, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Sure thing. However, I can hear simmering, so my bathwater is just about hot. No more edits for an hour or so. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:40, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

If the hook is in Prep 2 that gives 42-48 hrs approx for final tweaks. Once it's in the queue only an admin can edit it. Mjroots (talk) 17:46, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

How on earth did you get an ISBN for Nock, when that book was published several years before SBNs (let alone ISBNs) were invented? Mjroots (talk) 18:29, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Ah, I was working from the original, borrowed from my dad. Mjroots (talk) 19:38, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

LoTSW

If consensus is to have the table, by all means escalate the block level. Another avenue is WP:RFPP, with a request for semi-protection if there are numerous IPs editing against consensus. If it's just the one, then once a lvl4/4im warning has been issued the next step is WP:AIV. Mjroots (talk) 17:30, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Socks

The venue for sockpuppet investigations is WP:SPI. I'll look at the contribution of the editors in question later this morning. BTW, the {{User}} template is a handy tool to allow editing history to be investigated. I've refactored your message on my talk page with this template. Mjroots (talk) 10:32, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I've blocked Gellrok (talk · contribs) as a VOA and almost certain sock. I'm not sure about the other two accounts though. They might be socks of each other, but I don't think they are socks of Gellro(c)k. Mjroots (talk) 10:45, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

I've granted JoshuaHillman's request for some time away from Wikipedia. Maybe he'll learn that when we say stop vandalising we mean stop vandalising. Mjroots (talk) 13:52, 4 February 2010 (UTC)

Tri-ang refs

No problem. 'One of the unseen rules' - exactly - I had to work it out for myself that it looks better, although officially I think you're allowed to do it either way - so I'm glad you agree. Rothorpe (talk) 21:33, 7 February 2010 (UTC)

re: your message

Hi Redrose64, I've left a reply to your message on my talk page -- Marek.69 ^talk 15:08, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks: I watch all talk pages where I leave a question/comment. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:56, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

Cecil Kimber

Right - sorry, didn't mean to step on any toes. I just saw the link, wasn't sure if you were aware of it, and went ahead and filled it.

Apologies for being a while in responding, but they day kind of moved on from that point, as it were. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 01:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

Talkback V

{{talkback|RP459|ts=01:23, 20 February 2010 (UTC)}} -- RP459 ^Talk/_{Contributions} 01:23, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks: I watch all talk pages where I leave a question/comment. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:36, 20 February 2010 (UTC)

Criminal creology AfD

I just couldn't resist... [1]. Expect hilarity on my talk page soon. :-) Sorry for ignoring your talkback guideline, but we wouldn't want him to see this message and miss all the funhis revolutionary research Smocking (talk) 19:35, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

Userboxes

Yes indeed, hi to Jc37; I don't think we've conversed before, but I did leave you a message a couple of months ago, knowing full well that you'd not been around for weeks. I guess you've got something of a backlog and will only deal with the important issues. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:36, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi.

The quick answer to your question is: It's to reduce disruption.

There were a LOT of discussions, spread over a lot of talk pages, the VP, and other pages. And this includes quite a few proposed policy pages which have since been merged/deleted.

There's also issues regarding transclusion. Several people wanted to transclude the gallery portion on other pages, for example.

I hope this helps. If you have further questions or would like further clarification, please let me know. - jc37 03:23, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Copied to original discussion. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:48, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Milk Tanks

Re the Bluebell list, there are lots of other wagons which could have been seen in a passenger train. As we are supposed to be writing for the general public rather than the rail enthusiast, I think that my edit was reasonable. A milk tank is a tank wagon, in the same way that a petrol tank is. Mjroots (talk) 17:49, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I've done a bit of shunting on the list. Mjroots (talk) 19:24, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Talkback VI re lifeguard

{{talkback|Thryduulf}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thryduulf (talk • contribs) 09:57, 11 April 2010

Talkback VII re Banbury

{{tb|Andy F}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy F (talk • contribs) 16:58, 12 April 2010 {{tb|andy F}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andy F (talk • contribs) 18:48, 12 April 2010

Flying Scotsman named after a racehorse?

I've acknowledged the confusion my contribution on the Talk:Flying Scotsman (train) page seemed to cause. I did know about the race records of the other three horses concerned; your (rhetorical?) questions about "a racehorse named Flying Scotsman" led me to see whether it was possible to show there probably never was such a horse with a distinguished record, as its name would have become "permanent" and "protected" and couldn't have been used again. That there was a year 2000 registration of the name seemed to prove this. However, those other three weren't on the list either, and more careful study of Rule 6F of the Principal Rules and Requirements of The American Stud Book and the International List of Protected Names from the IFHA showed that it wasn't as clear-cut as I thought - even though (especially) Brown Jack's spectacular record justified an A3 being given his name. Serves me right for trying to be too clever! Regards. --Mabzilla (talk) 12:38, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Andy Devine

Hi there. I really hope you don't mind, I spotted your message on 5 albert square's talk page and I replied. :) - JuneGloom07 Talk? 12:05, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

No, it's OK, I watch all talk pages where I leave messages. I occasionally post replies myself on others' talk pages, where the question was asked by a third person. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:08, 22 April 2010 (UTC)

Vates and Thom

Yes- me too. I just created the article to kill a red link in the {{Lancashire Cotton}} template. Please go ahead and fill in the details, I am still working on mills and Castlefield --ClemRutter (talk) 13:44, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Re: Battle

from what i can remember lewes is labour —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hayyzzz96 (talk • contribs) 17:58, 10 May 2010 (UTC)

Globe Road and Devonshire Street railway stations

Butt does not suggest that they are the same station. Normally, in such cases, he uses the code "RO & RN new name" on the old station, and "RO & RF old name" on the new one. In this case he doesn't; there are separate entries for Devonshire Street, Mile End (p. 79) and Globe Road and Devonshire Street (p. 104). I am also concerned that a cut-and-paste move/merge has been performed; what should have been done was that one article should have been moved to the new name, and then a WP:FMERGE performed. However, whatever process was used, it should really have been discussed first: see Help:Merging. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:17, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

They are clearly in the same location on the same track where Globe Road and (former) Devonshire Street meet. Before we had Devonshire Street railway station and Globe Road railway station with no link to the combined name, despite maps and other mentions of the combined names. So I was bold and merged them. Since this is Wikipedia, you are of course free to undo what I did in the WP:BRD tradition.--Rumping (talk) 12:39, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Let's keep this all in one place, ie User talk:Rumping#Merge of station articles, where I see you've posted an identical reply. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:02, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

I am sorry that you have to change the lists again :(

As above really. I'll try and help myself if I can. Chevymontecarlo 16:42, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

Skype warning template

Re {{subst:uw-skype}} - you've not served one on me (mainly because I don't have Skype, in turn because my telephone works without it...), but today I've seen you use the message on other talk pages. I have occasionally had to fixup bad edits caused by Skype, as here, so I would have used the template on that user if I'd known about it... have you thought about getting it added to Template:Singlenotice/inner and also to Wikipedia:Template messages/User talk namespace#Single-level templates? --Redrose64 (talk) 13:05, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

I had thought about it, but given that Special:AbuseFilter/313 was supposed to deal with the problem, I didn't follow through then. I have now.--Rumping (talk) 00:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

The above was copied directly from User talk:Rumping#Skype warning template, where I have replied. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:15, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

Fact etc

AWB itself does Fact to citation needed. SB gets anew list of redirects for its regexes every time I build the rule base. At the moment I'm avoiding it because there's a template redirect called "..." that breaks stuff but I can do a build sooner rather than later. Rich Farmbrough, 11:31, 15 June 2010 (UTC).

Yes, when changing a redirect's meaning the least that should be done is to orphan the redirect first. Rich Farmbrough, 14:18, 15 June 2010 (UTC).

UERL move

I did try to move the page rather than copy-paste, but because the target had an edit history, the move was prevented by the software. There was no indication of there being a {{db-histmerge}} option in the warning and as I don't do a lot of admin stuff I wasn't aware of its existence. My reading of the warning was that the transfer should be done as a copy-paste. I've left a tag on the page.--DavidCane (talk) 21:37, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Re: Cull

Whoops.... that's fault of Firefox randomly crashing (and me not double checking). Oh well...--Nilfanion (talk) 16:26, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

I upgraded to 3.6.8 yesterday... is that one buggy? --Redrose64 (talk) 16:27, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

No its not FF itself, rather its my system (which does stupid things sometimes and is due for an overhaul really). Sigh :/--Nilfanion (talk) 16:30, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

I may have had the same problem several months ago, see here. --Redrose64 (talk) 08:08, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for info, I'll have a look and see if it helps (either way I'll take more care not to do that again(!)).--Nilfanion (talk) 09:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

TƒL Colours

The basis was the TƒL corporate style manual for the Pantone values. I then used information from Pantone and Adobe to determine the appropriate RGB values that would display correctly. Over a period of several months these were checked against TƒL's own web site, and on a variety of browsers and monitors. Of course, transmitive colours will never exactly match reflective ones. but these are as close as I feel can reasonably reached. (TƒL's 'web-safe' values are nowhere near close, and not really required -- as they may have been years ago -- with today's monitors & computers.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Useddenim (talk • contribs) 18:09, 29 July 2010

OK then; what is the URL for the TfL document that you obtained the values from? What is the page number within that doc? --Redrose64 (talk) 18:18, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

TƒL Colour Standard Issue 3, pp.4-41: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/tfl-colour-standard-issue03.pdf —Preceding unsigned comment added by Useddenim (talk • contribs) 18:46, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

I'm not convinced. However, to give others the option of commenting, I've raised a thread at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject London Transport#Colours.2C again.

Please remember to sign your posts using four tildes ~~~~ which shows thus: Redrose64 (talk) 19:06, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Oops! Sorry. Useddenim (talk) 19:12, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

This morning Gemma at Pulse Creative informed me that the colour specified for Tramlink routes 1/2 is Pantone 382. (Closest web-safe equivalent is #CCCC00.) A quick search through five different Pantone/RGB conversion tables/sites/tools gives three different "correct" RGB values. Do what you want with this information. Useddenim (talk) 12:40, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

A link to some page on the official TfL website - whether a PDF doc or otherwise - which explicitly gives an RGB value would be be best. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:44, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

Book or journal?

"Book" in question is A4 or thereabouts, and runs to a grand total of 32 pages including covers. It does state that it is a journal of SIAS, No 18 / 1988. There's not much to choose between the two templates though, is there? Mjroots (talk) 13:32, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

{{cite journal}} handles a greater variety of doc identifiers, such as ISSN, PMID, PMC. They also differ in several other aspects, mainly how book/journal, article/chapter titles are displayed, what to do when various URLs are provided, page numbering. There are also some funny little quirks to do with punctuation, one of which is a real oddity: {{cite book}} recognises |lastauthoramp=, where {{cite journal}} doesn't - but instead has |use ampersand before last author=. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:03, 30 July 2010 (UTC)

Talkback VIII

{{Talkback|Raywil|Wirral Line colour}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywil (talk • contribs) 15:30, 6 August 2010 {{Talkback|Raywil|Wirral Line colour}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywil (talk • contribs) 16:47, 6 August 2010 {{Talkback|Raywil|Wirral Line colour}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywil (talk • contribs) 16:53, 6 August 2010

Talkback IX

{{Talkback|Raywil|Wirral Line colour}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raywil (talk • contribs) 17:23, 9 August 2010

Re: District Line Route Map

from talk:WikiProject London Transport — … similar thread at Talk:District line#Route Map … I had posted there first, but go no reaction, so re-posted in a more noticeable spot. Useddenim (talk) 21:08, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

You could have placed a short notice at WT:LT linking to the existing thread at Talk:District line#Route Map. That would have brought people's attention to it, and saved the bother of duplicated prototypes. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:12, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Talkback X

{{Talkback|Help talk:Substitution|Substituting only the template output}} /HeyMid (contributions) 21:31, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

My RFC

In answer to your question, AFAIK, all editors may comment. Please feel free to do so. Mjroots (talk) 05:10, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Armstrongs

Just to say that there are two messages awaiting you on my talk page. I've been busy today!

Best wishes

8474tim (talk) 18:47, 11 September 2010 (UTC)

0-3-0

Hey! Look at the date! I was just learning then. Mjroots (talk) 18:36, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Quite so; hence the . --Redrose64 (talk) 18:37, 12 September 2010 (UTC)

Abbeys etc

You still stalking my talk page? - I think the problem is that JohnArmargh doesn't understand about redlinks, rather than a limit to the amount of refs that can appear in an article - I've seen articles with over 300 refs. Mjroots (talk) 11:17, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Talkback XI: Template:Citation needed

{{Talkback|Template talk:Citation needed|Reinserting_Merge_discussion_template|20:05, 7 November 2010 (UTC)}} — SpikeToronto 20:05, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Talkback XII

{{talkback|WVRMad}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by WVRMad (talk • contribs) 17:28, 9 November 2010

L&Y ships

Not good, not bad, but ugly! I created the tables with the titles per WP:MOSSHIP, so that they displayed correctly with the name in italics. It looks like the editor in question has created some articles (which is good) but they need a little guidance. The disambiguating year may be fine, as it is quite likely that more than one ship had a particular name. I'll drop him a note on his talk page and see where we go. Mjroots (talk) 15:55, 29 December 2010 (UTC)

Penshurst Airfield

The image problem was easy to fix, I just moved all images into the "From 1940" section, which I am informed has fixed the problem. Another alternative would have been to reduce the number of images in the 1940s section - probably to the two black and white images. Mjroots (talk) 09:31, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XIII: 204.174.87.29

{{Talkback|User talk:204.174.87.29|Any advantage of catch phrase over catchphrase?|ts=23:55, 15 February 2011 (UTC)}} — SpikeToronto 23:55, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

In case you missed it...

I left a response at Template talk:Cite journal. Please respond there. – VisionHolder « talk » 21:02, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

Re: Sophie Webster

Hey. I cannot believe the edits the user is making. It's total fancruft and it's not even formatted right, a favourite seems to putting BR> section breaks every where. I've just been cleaning a storyline section for Jackson Walsh, the gay following these articles get is quite nice, but annoying for editors like me who edit in the correct MOS and so on. Parkinson's article was just too much, had to remove anything unsourced, cut down all the character info which is not exclusive to her. Sophie's article is a state, they just don't undertand the policy or difference with in universe content and out. If you could keep an eye on what the editor is doing as a whole on Wiki, we can curb it getting so big a problem again. :)RAIN*the*ONE ^BAM 14:41, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

If there are lots of <BR> this may suggest that content is being copy&pasted from other web sites. I've not really looked at the rest of the user's contribs, I only really noticed him because he started making dozens of edits to Sacha Parkinson just over two weeks ago. That page has been on my watchlist since I did this edit on 6 November 2010; that edit was done because I was fixing up bad edits made by Mollymileysacha (talk · contribs) (are the last five letters coincidental?), which I spotted because of a bad edit made to Brooke Vincent which in turn I had watchlisted since I made this edit on 21 October 2010 when I was fixing up edits of Bradleybranning (talk · contribs) ... what a tangled web. I must admit that I de-watchlisted Sacha Parkinson because I couldn't keep up and had other commitments.

I'm not much good for Coronation Street fact-checking: I don't have any books. It's bad enough trying to control Doctor Who-related pages, which certainly pull in the WP:FANCRUFT but at least for checking those I have a heap of books going back to 1973. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:23, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

I could revert the character articles to before the editor made any contrib to them, but that may undo any good contribs in the intervening periods. So I'm not sure, I'll just have to edit them when I have time. TBH, I added the refs that are on Sophie's page a long time ago, so it's due a big update. It's just I've been concentrating on Hollyoaks, Neighbours and Home and Away character articles the past year, So I let them slip into this. But yeah, it's mainly LGBT characters that have these fan followings, that are writing these articles like fanzines. Perhaps they are copying the info from some where. I'll condense Sian's storylines now actually.RAIN*the*ONE ^BAM 15:35, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

Reign of Terror Tweet

The "classicDW" feed is run by Dan Hall - the man in charge of all the Classic Doctor Who DVD releases. [[Wikipedia::RS]] clearly states if the blog (Twitter in this case) is run by a professional in the field then it can be deemed an acceptable source. Dan more than meets this category. --Connorthomha (talk) 21:44, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Moving Metropolis

See reply. Simply south...... 16:58, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Spelling

Re the revision comment, '(why do people misspell Ian Allan's name so often?)' I was much amused. I must have a chinese knock-off of the pre-grouping atlas, for I copied the spelling off the cover. Best of luck...--Robert EA Harvey (talk) 08:17, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

I've looked at some old books published by this firm, and I see that the company name is, in some cases, written in cursive script (sometimes across a pictorial background such as a row of buildings or a rosette), and close inspection shows that the small "a" can look a bit like a small "e". But three points suggest that "Allan" is correct: (i) the fourth letter of the second word has a vertical stroke on its right-hand side; (ii) comparing this letter with the second letter of the first word, they appear similar (apart from the way the line comes in from the previous letter), and since the first word is unlikely to be "Ien", the second must be "Allan"; (iii) adverts either inside the covers or on the dustjacket flyleaves plainly state "IAN ALLAN LTD.". --Redrose64 (talk) 16:45, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XIV

{{talkback|Kudpung|ts=10:03, 19 March 2011 (UTC)}}

Ref names

You should know that the change to the ref name was made by AutoWikiBrowser as part of its "General Fixes" code. I don't have much involvement with that part of the tool. Is the addition of unnecessary quotes something that is worth reporting as a bug to the AWB developers? If so, do you need my help, or do you want to take it up with them? Chris the speller (talk) 16:54, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

I think the best place to start is by asking a question on WT:AWB. Chris the speller (talk) 17:14, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

(edit conflict)I don't use AWB myself (because I prefer to be fully aware of the edits I'm making), but I do know that it shouldn't make unnecessary edits. So yes, please raise a ticket; but it's not really a "bug", because it doesn't cause any issues with the rendered page; that is, <ref name=Smith123> is identical to <ref name="Smith123"> in its visible effect. A policy link to mention is WP:REFNAME. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

OK, boss, I'll do it. Chris the speller (talk) 17:21, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Tag bomber

I think we must have hit the undo button at British Rail Class 73 at the same time, as it came back ok for me, and I only noticed it had your name against the edit later on. Tim PF (talk) 15:38, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, it does that. I'm working through the list e'en now, and have about 5 more edits to check - that's unless you get there first! --Redrose64 (talk) 15:40, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

I'll leave it to you, today; I did a batch a couple of days ago :-/

What annoys me more than anything about the tag bombing is that, although Yh00157 (talk · contribs) has added a few useful references, he doesn't seem to do anything else to actually improve the articles. I added a big comment about improving the British Rail Class 73 back in January, and apart from your own encouraging but fairly thin reply, there have been no other comments, and practically nothing has been done. I suppose I could carry on and change the article as planned, but I'd have to add {{expand section}} tags to at least 3 sections, and I don't like spreading too many tags about. Tim PF (talk) 15:55, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Vale of Rheidol categories

In a break from my normal principles, I've replied at my talk page, and thanks for pointing out my mistake here. Regards, Bencherlite^Talk 16:08, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XV: Open Library

{{Talkback|User_talk:Citation_bot#Wrong_ISBN_applied_to_old_book}} Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 03:17, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Newcastle and St Pancras

Hello, I have responded to your suggestion and added my comment about the naming of Newcastle station, which is that I agree with you on the basis of the platform signage. This is the same argument as mine for renaming St Pancras as "St Pancras International". Since there seems to be no consensus for that, I am now suggesting we should at least make clear in the first sentence of the article that St Pancras International is the official name. One editor is disputing this but the case seems to me overwhelming on the basis of all the evidence put forward. -- Alarics (talk) 13:18, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

OK; my main concern was always that of consistency: I didn't want to find that the rule used for one was different from the rule used for the other. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:11, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

I quite agree with you about the need for consistency. Unless I have misunderstood, your view (which is also my view) on the Newcastle naming case has prevailed, and the vociferous opponent appears to be in a minority of one. Unfortunately, it seems there is no consensus for applying exactly the same rule (i.e. use the official name based on what the platform signs say) in the St Pancras International case. Now, on top of that, I cannot even get agreement for making it clear in the opening sentence of the article that "St Pancras International" is the official name. Don't you agree that this is quite unsatisfactory? -- Alarics (talk) 19:41, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Could we at least find something which notes the general change of name in an article (or even a note in a sidebar of a news page) in one of the publications like The Railway Magazine, Modern Railways, Today's Railways or similar? I recall that this was done for Ashford (Kent) → Ashford International. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:49, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

Muirend railway station

Please see my comment at Talk:Muirend railway station regarding DfT Category E Stations. --Stewart ^{(talk | edits)} 20:45, 15 April 2011 (UTC)

platform information

The National Rail search gives platform information. It shows that under the new timetable platform 3 at Shrewsbury will be used by Cardiff-Holyhead trains and the later of the two HoW trains on Sundays. Not sure how that can be referenced, but it can be quickly checked by searching the National Rail (search engined) timetables. David (talk) 20:02, 17 April 2011 (UTC)

Your note

Hello Redrose64. Thanks for your note. IMO the fact that the book cover has the words "Bumper Edition" (I have no idea what that means either!) printed on it should cover its mention in that section. However, I can sure understand if your disagree with that opinion. To be honest I came within an inch of removing the whole thing as non notable. I mean what the heck is special about a bumper edition compared to a regular one? Also my copy of that book does not have that wording on the cover. If you want to look into it further I might suggest asking at the Dr Who wikiproject whether anyone can clarify what that is and why it deserves a mention. One other option is to leave it for awhile and if no one adds a clarification after a couple a months we could remove the thing. Any suggestions that you have would also be welcome. Have a great week and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 13:53, 18 April 2011 (UTC)

EditCounterOptIn.js - opt out

Hey there, thanks for your suggestion on X!'s talk page. I put a {{db-userreq}} on the page but the coding didn't take. Any thoughts? - Haymaker (talk) 11:59, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Never mind, that seems to have done the trick. Thanks for your help. - Haymaker (talk) 12:24, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

The page User:Haymaker/EditCounterOptIn.js no longer exists, and instead there is a notice containing the text

This page has been deleted. The deletion and move log for the page are provided below for reference.

• 12:02, 22 April 2011 Iridescent (talk · contribs) deleted "User:Haymaker/EditCounterOptIn.js" ‎ (U1: User request to delete page in own userspace)

Thus, it occurred three mins after your first post above, but I can't tell when you placed the {{db-userreq}}, so I don't know how long you needed to wait. There's always a delay between placing a speedy-delete tag and it being actioned; it all depends on which admins are watching either Category:Candidates for speedy deletion and/or Category:Candidates for speedy deletion by user. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:56, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

I am familiar with the template and when I placed the code the template did not appear, just the raw letters and symbols. - Haymaker (talk) 18:33, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

I think that all .js pages on Wikipedia look like raw code, whatever you put in them: the main thing is that the sppedy template categorises the page somewhere that it'll be spotted by an admin. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:18, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Reference names

Looks like all sorts of characters can be used in ref names; see User:Gadget850/t7. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 03:19, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Your trial is incomplete: you should really have each different case twice so as to ascertain whether the name is treated as similar or not. For example, instead of having

<ref name=©>©</ref>

just once, put it twice. If you try that, you'll find that they're not merged: whereas those limited to 64 particular characters (A-Z a-z 0-9 hyphen and period) are treated as similar.

--Redrose64 (talk) 11:20, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

It does that since you are defining the same ref twice. Interesting— it works the first time, but if you invoke the named ref again, then it gives an error. I don't think that using these characters used to work at all. I know that not all of those characters work, but I haven't dug into it fully.

<ref name=©>©</ref><ref name=©/><ref name=c>c</ref><ref name=c/>

You won't see the error since it is suppressed on user pages— see {{broken ref}}. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 12:28, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Good catch on the reuse issue. I updated the test and added User:Gadget850/t7#Works. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 13:05, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

I've found the W3C recommendation on quoting attribute values - note the phrase "In certain cases, authors may specify the value of an attribute without any quotation marks. The attribute value may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), hyphens (ASCII decimal 45), periods (ASCII decimal 46), underscores (ASCII decimal 95), and colons (ASCII decimal 58). We recommend using quotation marks even when it is possible to eliminate them."

Elsewhere, I have seen books on HTML which also forbid the use of underscores and colons in unquoted attribute values. I find that it's better to be safe than sorry. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:52, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Since these rules are listed in different places, I created {{Refname rules}} to try to keep them consistent. Test page now at Help:Cite errors/Ref name tests. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) ^talk 13:08, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Autogyros

You could try searching the Flight / Flight International archives. Mjroots (talk) 21:33, 12 May 2011 (UTC)

Avonmouth railway station

Hi, thanks for letting me know about joint ownership, I may have to check out whether other stations on the Severn Beach Line were joint. -mattbuck (Talk) 20:18, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

All those between Montpelier and Avonmouth inclusive - ie anything shown in red on this map or in dotted green/yellow on this map, plus everything in between including the Hotwells branch - were joint GWR/Midland pregroup, and joint GWR/LMS postgroup. Generally speaking: if a railway was not explicitly mentioned in the Railways Act 1921, it wasn't grouped; but if such unmentioned railway was already partially or wholly owned by one or more railways which were grouped, it became the joint property of the relevant postgroup companies. So although neither the Bristol Port, Railway & Pier nor the Clifton Extension Railway were named in the Act, both became joint GWR/LMS because pre-grouping they had both been joint GWR/Midland; and the GWR was explicitly named as a constituent of the Western Group (p. 485), and the Midland was explicitly named as a constituent of the North Western, Midland, and West Scottish Group (p. 486). --Redrose64 (talk) 21:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Brown

See reply. Simply south...... unintentionally misspelling fr 5 years 20:59, 19 May 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XVI: Blank lines on talk pages

{{talkback|Joseph A. Spadaro}} — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joseph A. Spadaro (talk • contribs) 16:59, 21 May 2011

Talkback XVII: You have a reply :-)

{{talkback|MarnetteD}} MarnetteD | Talk 16:59, 24 June 2011 (UTC)

Hunts Cross and Woolton

The link seems a bit weird. It didn't work, I then followed links from the front page through to the Maps page and now the link works. V Odd. I have put a message on the editors page.--Kitchen Knife (talk) 16:40, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

re: your message

Hi Redrose64, I've left a reply to your message on my talk page -- Marek.69 ^talk 21:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Hi Redrose64, I've left you another reply on my talk page -- Marek.69 ^talk 16:13, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Humber Ferries

AFAIK, Sealink is not wrong. PS Tattershall Castle was a Humber ship, as was PS Lincoln Castle. Both were operated under Sealink in their final service years. Mjroots (talk) 20:17, 2 July 2011 (UTC)

Tillingbourne Bus Company

Btw, I've moved the discussion to WT:LT. Simply south...... digging mountains for 5 years 01:37, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Just checking you saw my reply. Simply south...... improving for 5 years 17:53, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Yes, thanks. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:17, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: Duplicate Coords in City Articles

I think User:Sbmeirow is referring to something else, probably this. —Stepheng3 (talk) 15:52, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Navigation Road station

Hi, cheers for the info. I wasn't sure about the move in the first place, which is why I didn't change any of the inbound links. With the article having been moved back, I have changed the opening to match the article title. – PeeJay 22:40, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Help desk query

I am not sure if you understand my issue at Wikipedia:Help_desk/Archives/2011 July 25#Navbox_with_collapsible_groups_liststyle_not_working.--TonyTheTiger (T/C/BIO/WP:CHICAGO/WP:FOUR) 13:46, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XVIII

{{tb|User talk:Agathoclea}} Agathoclea (talk) 19:52, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XIX

{{talkback|ClueBot_NG|Submitting a false pos report.|ts=04:27, 12 October 2011 (UTC)}} - Damian Zaremba ^{(talk • contribs)} 04:27, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XX

{{talkback|Katarighe|ts=21:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)}} If I need assistance, please help. Good contributions. Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 21:02, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XXI

{{talkback|WikiPuppies|AWB|ts=22:33, 4 November 2011 (UTC)}} WikiPuppies! (bark) 22:33, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Talkback number #2, same place. WikiPuppies! (bark) 22:40, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XXII: WP:TIS

{{Talkback|Pencefn|WP TIS}}

Thanks, yes, already noticed - I watch talk pages that I post to. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:48, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

Talkback XXIII

{{tb|Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)#The Find sources template is currently linking to the main Google News site, sans the search criterion}} —Northamerica1000^(talk) 13:25, 11 January 2012 (UTC) {{tb|HandsomeFella|Help with template}} {{tb|Nthep}}

Talkback XXIV: Template talk:WikiProject Canada

{{Talkback|Template talk:WikiProject Canada}} Argolin (talk) 04:00, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Talkback XXV: Re: Template:Documentation

{{talkback|Template talk:Documentation#Edit request on 11 March 2012}} -- SLV100 (talk) 05:23, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

new message -- SLV100 (talk) 01:14, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Talkback XXVI

{{Talkback|Bob Re-born}} --Bob Re-born (talk) 22:24, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Talkback XXVII

{{talkback|Chip123456|ts=18:27, 29 April 2012 (UTC)}} Sorry if, like me you don't like the TB templates! Chip123456 (talk) 18:27, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Chip, basically, we changed the name (by consensus) of WikiProject Thoroughbred racing to WikiProject Horse racing. Someone else did the easy stuff, I was trying to transclude the templates and get all the name changes around. When I did a redirect, the template didn't show on tagged articles, so I transcluded. At any rate, I think Rich Farmborough is fixing my foulups as we speak. Montanabw^(talk) 23:28, 6 May 2012 (UTC)

Talkback XXVIII

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Talkback XXIX

{{talkback|Koavf|Broken banner|ts=18:49, 15 June 2012 (UTC)}} —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 18:49, 15 June 2012 (UTC)