User talk:Redrose64/thanks

Good job on the place of publication for the Woodworm era book. I'd love to know how Patcham, Kent got in there.--Sabrebd (talk) 13:29, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Er, it seems to have originated with this edit. Incidentally, there seem to be several cases where the same ref occurs several times with the same page number - this gives several identical entries in the reference list. These may be condensed - the easiest way is by use of the name= attribute on the <ref> tag. I also like to use the {{cite book}} template (the one does not require the other). We thus have:

Statement 1.<ref name=refexample>{{cite book |last1=Redwood |first1=Fred |last2=Woodward |first2=Martin
 |title=The Woodworm Era: The story of today's Fairport Convention |publisher=Jeneva |location=Thatcham
 |year=1995 |page=14 |isbn=0-9525860-0-2 }}</ref>
Statement 2.<ref name=refexample />
{{reflist}}

which comes out as:

Statement 1.[1]
Statement 2.[1]

I knew it was one of my edits, just dont know how I got the wrong place. I have to be honest I don't care for the cite book template as they make it so hard to read a page when editing. I tend to prefer using <ref name=>. As it breaks up the text rather less.--—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabrebd (talk • contribs) 16:15, 17 August 2009

Thanks very much for your message Redrose64 and for dealing with this editor. In retrospect I should have issued an indefinite block. I will keep an eye out for the IP also. Best regards -- Samir 17:21, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi. Thanks for contributing to the discussion about the NATO videos' copyright status. Just to let you know that I've responded to your comments. Cordless Larry (talk) 22:04, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the message! I'm not vastly familiar with the workings of those templates so that's really useful in bearing in mind for the future. Regards,  — MapsMan [ talk | cont ] — 22:07, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

		The Wikilink Barnstar
		for working to speed up navigation by dilligently fixing links pointed at diambiguation pages! --SquidSK (1MC•log) 16:21, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for your help fixing the incoming links to Wallingford. --Una Smith (talk) 16:59, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks. I think this is fixed. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:41, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:45, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks, it is a nice station, except when it is raining. While I have not been there for some years, I would not want to litter it with surplus commas. Rich Farmbrough, 11:51, 19 November 2009 (UTC).

P.S. I am checking my alst few thousand edits for more of the same. Rich Farmbrough, 12:04, 19 November 2009 (UTC).

Re this edit - you can achieve the same, or at least a similar, effect by using {{clearleft}} (see also {{clear}} and {{clearright}}); this ought to be less prone to removal than <br />. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:05, 28 November 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for the information - I thought I'd tried {{clearleft}} before and it didn't solve the problem, but I just tried it again and it does work, so I'll use it in future. regards, Rod Rcbutcher (talk) 01:26, 29 November 2009 (UTC)

Hi Redrose64, thanks for the comment on the cite web Talk page. Funnily enough I had wondered if the question was on the wrong Talk page so I put a brief mention here on . As a newbie I'm not sure how to mention your response or how to move the whole discussion to Template_talk:Citation/core as you suggest. Do you?--Lidos (talk) 10:40, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

You seem to have raised your question at Template talk:Citation and not at Template talk:Citation/core - basically, there are several citation templates, including {{cite web}}, {{cite book}}, {{citation}} (over ten in total) and all that these do is to pass data on to {{Citation/core}}, which does the donkey work. I have raised a fresh section in the proper place: it can be found at Template talk:Citation/core#Quotes in wrong position bug.

BTW: when providing links to other Wikipedia pages, the pipe thing doesn't work. It's also best not to use the full URL. See Help:Link So, instead of this:

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Citation#Cite_web.2C_Quotes_in_wrong_position|Template_talk:Citation]

use this:

[[Template talk:Citation#Cite web, Quotes in wrong position|Template talk:Citation]]

Thanks, --Redrose64 (talk) 11:13, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for moving the discussion to the right place. It's good to see that people are generally in agreement, and that a solution has been proposed. (The coding is beyond me!)--Lidos (talk) 09:50, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Redrose64, for reverting my userpage. -- RandorXeus. 00:12, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

Thank you, Redrose64, for fixing the references for me in the SECR K and SR K1 classes and the explanation on the Talk page. I will try and do it properly next time, David --Das48 (talk) 16:30, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. Tonythepixel (talk) 20:00, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

I can't figure out why so many editors here think we all know HTML or C++ (I have no clue what they are, having never had any computer training! Somehow, I think I copied that as a model, and somehow didn't pick up that one part- just got a gripe about something like that adding photos a day or so ago, which means that the Derek Trucks and a whole bunch of Fairport Convention members, well, the past two days' worth of infoboxes I have built may be flawed. Sorry. Really! I have an infected eardrum and I think I best lay off the codeine! But if you had not explained exactly what and why things were, I'd never have understood. --Leahtwosaints (talk) 14:27, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

On January 29, 2010, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article James Cudworth (engineer), which you created or substantially expanded. You are welcome to check how many hits your article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check ) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Wikiproject: Did you know? 12:01, 29 January 2010 (UTC)

448 hits on 29 January 2010 --Redrose64 (talk) 18:39, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Hadn't realised my lat/long format was the thing ruining the infobox. Thanks for the help! I spent some time in Anbar, so it's important to me to get some coverage up on the subject. Will keep your tip in mind for future infoboxes. MatthewVanitas (talk) 23:25, 1 February 2010 (UTC)

Quick facts

Ar Rahaliyah Ar Rahaliyah (Iraq)	Ar Rahaliyah Ar Rahaliyah (Iraq)
Coordinates: 32°45′0″N 43°24′36″E	Coordinates: Coordinates: Unknown argument format

Close

The problem was the combination of the parameters. On my first reading of the template source, I worked out that if you specify a value for |latNS= you must also provide a value for |latm=, and also the value of |latd= must be an integer (similarly, if you specify a value for |longEW= you must also provide a value for |longm=, and also the value of |longd= must be an integer).

Accordingly, I amended Ar Rahaliyah to suit those rules, which worked (see first example at right).

However, on checking again, I found that if you leave |latNS= blank, you can also leave |latm= blank, in which case the value of |latd= may be a decimal value (similarly, if you leave |longEW= blank, you can also leave |longm= blank, in which case the value of |longd= may be a decimal value).

Thus I could have changed the parameters to:

|latd=32.75 |latm= |lats= |latNS=

|longd=43.41 |longm= |longs= |longEW=

which would have produced the second example at right. The only visual difference is whether the co-ordinates are displayed as DMS form or as decimal form - the display form matches the form used for the parameters.

In other words, if you prefer the decimal form, you can use it, but don't specify North/East as well. --Redrose64 (talk) 00:34, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit to Template:Rolt-Red regarding the ed. edition. This is one of the unfortunate side effects of the recent change to the main book template to add ed.. I had previous added edition when as 1st, 2nd, etc did not appear to make sense without it. --Stewart ^{(talk | edits)} 17:22, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I wanted to thank you for all of your work, effort, and assistance in responding to my Help Desk questions about sorting names in Wikipedia tables. I will be making a "copy" of your Sandbox Page, so that I can use it and refer to it. Thanks so much for all of your assistance ... and for all the work and time that you put into answering my questions. Much appreciated! Thanks! (64.252.68.102 (talk) 14:58, 22 February 2010 (UTC))

Thanks I've had this problem before at (e.g.) {{Infobox Bibliography}}. I don't know how interested you are in fixing these things, but if you really want something to do, you could probably poke around the infoboxes categories and find a couple that don't have Alt yet. I'll try to take a look at what you did here and what someone else did at Infobox Bibliography to see if I can get the hang of it myself. Again, much appreciated. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

I've never edited an infobox before, so I figured I wouldn't do it very well and was hoping someone would make better. I just wanted to add Eli Whitney's signature to his wikipedia article... Scewing (talk) 17:48, 28 February 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your correction! Etan J. Tal 18:57, 13 March 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Etan J. Tal (talk • contribs)

Just wikignoming... (this refers) --Redrose64 (talk) 19:29, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for doing my work there on that category depopulation. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 14:54, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Didn't actually do anything except drop messages in different places --Redrose64 (talk) 15:17, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

I know, but it's the fact that you did so that probably got the job done. Kevin Rutherford (talk) 03:58, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the editing and spotting a fault with one of the dates for the electrification. I've added a link back in to Bradshaw's page, but not using the citation. Ajcoxuk (talk) 18:00, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Hiya Redrose64, just a note to thank you for templating the talk page for the Charter fair stub I created today. When I get round to it, I'll add some more examples – I'm a bit tied up with checking Cornwall placeneame articles ATM. I note you're a fan of Judy Dyble, yes? Fraternal good wishes, Andy F (talk) 14:19, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks --Redrose64 (talk) 14:21, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

My apologies. Thanks for the catch. --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 04:27, 14 April 2010 (UTC)

Hello Redrose64. Thanks for your note regarding the Outpost Gallifrey links. I also appreciate the link to the previous discussion about them since I had missed it before. I have added my thoughts to that discussion. Cheers and happy editing. MarnetteD | Talk 11:41, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Exactly what I was looking for - thank you! kcylsnavS (kalt) 18:46, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip on sections of newspapers (at The Cream of the Jest). —JerryFriedman (Talk) 00:39, 16 May 2010 (UTC)

..for clearing up that /doc. LeadSongDog come howl! 01:33, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

thanks for amending the heading levels - I did not realise they would cause problems.--Das48 (talk) 16:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)

Good catch! Thanks, --Stepheng3 (talk) 15:39, 21 June 2010 (UTC)

Well spotted! It was very late and I was concentrating on finding the best rebuilt and unrebuilt pictures -- I suspect I just edited the existing captions and didn't look that far to the left... -- EdJogg (talk) 12:04, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for all of your help with getting the WP Thoroughbred Racing assessment going. I really appreciate it! Verkhovensky (talk) 19:30, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

I created all the redlink cats that you hadn't... then I started putting a few representative articles in each. It looks like taking a long time - there are 4803 articles in Category:WikiProject Thoroughbred racing articles. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:33, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Well done, if you did that. I have no time to learn it all properly yet, but I will, soon. I happen to think that image placement is shambolic in many articles. We need gnomes to go around fixing them. In fact, we need a template that creates a list of articles that experts can go through from time to time improving image layout. Tony (talk) 15:00, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

The last one sounds like a bot task... so is outside my capabilities. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:02, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! Had I just used the wrong number? I'd already used a close=1 and close=2 on that page, and I think some more. I must have misunderstood how it works. SlimVirgin ^{talk|contribs} 21:24, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

The number is immaterial, as is the parameter name; it is merely the presence of a parameter (any parameter) that counts - you could have put {{reflist|Jimbo=Wales}} into each of the relevant sections and they would all have worked. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:29, 3 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, yes, missed, oops and gone. That editor is most persistant, regardless of the futility - Peripitus (Talk) 21:16, 5 August 2010 (UTC)

... for your efforts in recategorizing and re-stubbing fungus articles! Cheers, Sasata (talk) 18:38, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

Not finished yet - having now completed (almost) its sub-cats, Category:Fungus stubs is next (ie tomorrow), then I'm done (for now). --Redrose64 (talk) 18:43, 8 August 2010 (UTC)

... for reverting the vandalism on my user page while I was out. Alarics (talk) 15:47, 20 August 2010 (UTC)

It's a side-effect of my habit of watching any page I edit. I leave somebody a message - then days/weeks later a third party does something, so I check it out. Watching a talk page watches the associated non-talk page and vice versa. If users edit their own user pages, I usually ignore; but if somebody else does so, I look closer. Usually it's a housekeeping task like cleaning up after a TfD or unlinking a nonfree file, so again, ignore. In this case: clear vandalism, so went for my nice shiny (rarely used) rollback privilege. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:51, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

A dangerous habit, isn't it? So how big's your watchlist now? Mine's approaching 2000 articles (although there are likely hundreds of redirect pages in there) so it's probably time for a clear-out. I tend to monitor (steam-related) articles that are likely to be edited rarely -- the backwaters of WP if you like -- and leave the highly-edited pages to others. -- EdJogg (talk) 07:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Over 5000 pages. 20% of this is because I recently racked up 1000 edits in 6 days, mostly to pages that I'd never visited before, when doing some non-railway stub sorting. Basically: find a stub category which has several more specific sub-cats, and see if articles may sensibly be moved down a level or more. One that usually provides a crop is Category:Rail transport stubs. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:00, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Your watch list must be very busy!

I try hard to avoid such edit-fests now, as I spend too long on WP as it is, although I sometimes get sucked-in to similar wide-scale tidy-up sessions at Commons.

Here I have created a set of user pages to monitor articles with high edit frequency, or of minor interest (such as a small mention of steam engine -related history), and then use 'Recent Changes' on these user pages once a week to check for any vandalism missed by other editors. Seems to keep my edit time to sane proportions, although my ToDo list is ever-growing...

EdJogg (talk) 15:41, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

I find the best way to handle it is to operate two watchlists—a minimal one of those pages I consider significant, and a bloated "everything I've ever touched" one. (Easiest to do with an empty-shell sock account, although you can cut-and-paste from "edit raw watchlist".) Once a month or so I check the extended one for changes, but the rest of the time I only watch the "important stuff" one—otherwise, it's way too easy to spend an hour each day just looking at diffs. – iridescent 16:20, 24 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your work on that table of J G Robinson locos, you did pretty much exactly as I was going to do but ran out of time that evening, plus you seem to have access to a better collection of RCTS volumes than mine...

As you probably guessed this was a first attempt at updating Wikipedia and I will better plan next time so I can properly complete what I set out to do! Cheers... —Preceding unsigned comment added by PST195J (talk • contribs) 01:34, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

I do have a complete set of the RCTS partworks. By complete, I mean exactly that - all 19 LNER parts, 14 GWR, 11 SR, etc. and some of them were pretty hard to track down (my GWR part 4 is a damaged copy, without covers and endpapers).

I see that they were indeed your first edits. They are pretty good, especially for a newbie - the page formatting wasn't broken, all changes were referenced, and there was very little to fault, other than the missing data (but it's far better to omit something than to guess at it); you may have noticed I made a small number of corrections. I did spot one matter of style that you might like to make a note of - where one statement is given two references (such as with the 9L/C14 row here), these should be butted up together, ie <ref>first ref</ref><ref>second ref</ref> without intervening punctuation. --Redrose64 (talk) 17:23, 25 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the successful bigger junction. I had to attend to a hardware problem on the computer and had to give it up. I have had to modify your work however as the line to the docks past the old terminus site is still there and used for freight and, still, cruise ship trains. Hope you're not too muffed and thanks again. Britmax (talk) 19:04, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Oh, it's fine - it still uses the only icon that I needed to create - the others already existed. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:09, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for your note. I am editing too quickly this morning (my time) and did not take the time to check that it was a new entry. I thought that I remembered reading it in my past checks of the article so maybe it was removed "yonks ago :-)" and put back in today. Ah well thanks again for your note and cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 16:13, 18 November 2010 (UTC)

Hi Redrose, I am drnsreedhar. Your post on how to do thumbnails was really of immense help to me since I am totally ignorant of computer programing. I followed your instructions and you can see a few more of images of Sultans and Emperors of India. Please follow my work and do corrections whenever necessary. I have about 700 images of which I could publish only a few for the simple reason my incapability to program.Anyway, thank you very much. I belong to Kerala,India and is working in Government service as Additional Director of the Health Services of Kerala.Coin collecting is my hobby and I wish to share knowledge with those having same interests. So I thank you once again for your timely help. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drnsreedhar1959 (talk • contribs) 15:24, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

Thanks. The phrase "staffed working" is meant to refer to "tokenised working" (does that need clarifying?)- I'm not sure but I think there was something unusual (possibly an old fashion method of working) (possibly that it used a staff used on this line -is that unusual?) - I'd need to re-check the source again - but I don't remember anything specifically mentioning the electric train staff type. I'm not sure but I think it wasn't. which usually means I'm wrong Sf5xeplus (talk) 23:12, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

(It made sense after you explained it, but too late to withdraw my edit summary).Sf5xeplus (talk) 23:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for that. I thought something seemed not quite right, but I was tired and didn't clue in. – RobinHood70 ^talk 19:21, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Good catch. I thought I had caught all of those but apparently not! :) --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 14:26, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for comment. I have replied on my talk page. Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 18:23, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

		The Editor's Barnstar
		for your efforts in fixing the soon-to-be serious problem with the templates that I had left unoticed. Where would we be without you? Jaguar (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Also thanks for your help at WikiProject Wiltshire and helping lift the project off the ground. Jaguar (talk) 21:17, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for that - now nailed to the barn. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:28, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I saw the quality of your contributions at DYK and clicked on over to your user page and was pretty impressed. Would you be interested in helping with the WP:Online_Ambassadors program? It's really a great opportunity to help university students become Wikipedia contributers. I hope you apply to become an ambassador, Sadads (talk) 00:41, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Contributions at DYK? One nom yesterday (which hasn't got to prep stage yet); another which made it to main page DYK almost a year ago - and that one was in collaboration with Mjroots (talk · contribs) who has nearly 200 DYKs.

Anyway, something to think about. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:20, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

LOLZ I didn't even notice that, but thank you! take care, AJona1992 (talk) 21:24, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

On 29 January 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Britannia railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the highest point on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was 965 feet (294 m) above sea level, just to the east of Britannia railway station? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Thank you Victuallers (talk) 18:04, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Yay! (My second, exactly one year after my first). --Redrose64 (talk) 18:08, 29 January 2011 (UTC)

Over the last few days I've noticed that you are correcting administrative areas on railway station articles. I must come clean and admit that a lot of these were mine, created ( or in some cases adapted from existing articles) several years ago when my experience and quality standards were not the same as (I hope) they are now. Sorry for the extra work but you seem to be doing a good job! Britmax (talk) 11:01, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

A recent change to {{Infobox UK disused station}} meant that |line=, which previously showed as Original company, instead showed as Line, which was not very good for those cases where |line= had genuinely been used as a synonym for |original=. A subsequent change means that |line= once again shows as Original company, unless |original= is also given. So I've tasked myself with (i) finding where both |line= and |original= have been used, and checking that both are valid (see, for example, Abercynon North railway station where the original company was British Rail, which is an extremely vague term: so |line= can sensibly be used to give better context); and (ii) finding where |line= has been used as a synonym for |original=, and switch it over (but only when sensible to do so), thus releasing the parameter. Whilst making such changes, I am also amending the ambiguous parameters |manager= and |owner= to their more meaningful synonyms |pregroup= and |postgroup=, fixing up where necessary.

I'm taking the opportunity to fix up |locale= and |borough= at the same time. I had found a lot of inconsistency; in the places where {{Infobox UK disused station}} is used, I had seen that |locale= could cover anything from England [sic] right down to a ten-house hamlet; |borough= also showed variations, possibly not as broad in size - although broad in time. The documentation for {{Infobox UK disused station}} doesn't go into specifics but implies that |locale= and |borough= have similar meanings to the same parameters in {{Infobox GB station}}, for which an examination of a large number of articles (a few hundred) shows the general convention is |locale= being the actual town/village, and |borough= being the relevant unitary authority, London/Metropolitan borough, or district council.

With the |borough= parameter in {{Infobox UK disused station}}, I noticed a variation in time: some showed the modern local authority, some a traditional one; and of those, some were a county, some a smaller division. I can't remember where, but there is a guideline stating that we should use modern terms for places, and when dealing with historic events, old names/borders may be mentioned but only to give context (by which I assume that such mentions go in the text, not the infobox). Personally I'm a fan of the traditional county, so for me, I would rather put Abingdon railway station as Berkshire, not Vale of White Horse, but am willing to go with the latter in the interests of the project. --Redrose64 (talk) 14:40, 31 January 2011 (UTC)

I just noticed this. There are probably more of those around, created before {{DEFAULTSORT}} was available. The only way to get the stub to sort properly was to do it like that. I'll see if there are any others. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (talk) 14:52, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Btw, I've submitted it to DYK. Simply south...... 18:35, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your additions to GWR absorbed locos 1922 on. Biscuittin (talk) 22:38, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

On 12 February 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Pontyclun railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Pontyclun railway station, previously called Llantrisant, was originally two separate railway stations that were later merged into one? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Orlady (talk) 06:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out - that was a typo, you'll see I got it right in the edit summary! Tom walker (talk) 23:37, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for your help at the pump! I now have my buttons back where they should be and my scripts working properly! Many, many thanks! HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:16, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the link back to the main station article, forgot all about it.... regards Phil aka Geotek (talk) 17:49, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Thankyou for the clarification of the Windsor Link. I knew it allowed trains from Picadilly, such as TransPennine Express, to get to Scotland more directly, but for some reason I had got it into my head that it was needed for other Victoria routes, such as to Liverpool. I think I was also confused by the missing "to Bolton" label on Template:Liverpool to Manchester Lines. Well, I think it does mean that I got the Ordsall Chord position correct after all. Tim PF (talk) 20:29, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

I remember it being built - I lived in Bolton at the time, and all our Manchester services had been to/from Victoria. As an experiment in the mid-1980s, they extended one train an hour to Hazel Grove - from Victoria it ran via Miles Platting, Ashton Moss South Junction, and Denton, calling only at Stockport. This gave passengers from the south the ability to change at Stockport for Bolton, Chorley etc. The route between Ordsall Lane Junction and Castlefield Junction (near Deansgate) was at that time used only for freight trains, the passenger services along the old L&M (Newton-le-Willows, Eccles etc.) running to/from Victoria just as they had done since the closure of Exchange in 1969.

With the construction of the Windsor Link (between Windsor Bridge Junction and Ordsall Lane Junction), the section between Ordsall Lane Junction and Castlefield Junction was brought back into use for passenger trains, and the Blackpool-Hazel Grove service was rerouted over these lines, calling at Oxford Road, Piccadilly and Stockport. Curiously, it was not for some years that L&M trains began to run to Oxford Road, instead of Victoria, although in theory they could have done so previously. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:50, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

I think I only travelled on it once (or it could have been twice) from Birmingham to Glasgow via Manchester and Bolton soon after the link opened. I seem to remember that it was a Class 47 up front, because I expected an electric loco, having not noted the route beforehand, but noting the lack of wires after Manchester. It was only recently that I realised the route, and that it could have been electrified through to Preston at the time (which would have saved the sight of Class 57s dragging diverted Pendolinos from Crewe in 2007. Then again, the presence of wires all the way doesn't seem to stop Virgin running Super Voyagers from Birmingham to Scotland.

By the way, I noted at Liverpool to Manchester Lines#Electrification that it says that TPE will use Class 350s via Golborne Junction, but I thought that the Manchester-Bolton-Preston-Blackpool electrification was also going ahead (so TPE could run 350s via Bolton). Is that not so? Tim PF (talk) 22:55, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Manchester-Bolton-Preston electrification is, I believe, a current proposal: but as to which types of stock they'll use, I relly couldn't say. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:35, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the Hough Green area duplicates. As you probably realise it was a simple cut and paste quality follow up failure. Sorry and well spotted! Britmax (talk) 01:39, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Thanks, changed! --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 16:18, 26 April 2011 (UTC)

Hi again. Thanks for your note about the info that website. I still feel that the "standard release" DVDs designation is a bit non notable for our articles as a) it did not last very long and b) it might need a better description of what makes them different from other releases at the time. Having said all of that if you feel like the info should go back in then please feel free to restore it. Thanks again and have a good week editing and offline too. MarnetteD | Talk 20:19, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for useful tip. Duncan7670 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.63.87.228 (talk) 13:32, 25 May 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for sorting out those ISSNs . So I was right the first time? Raywil (talk) 21:02, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

You keep a watchful eye on Dr Who articles so it is beyond high time that you received this

		The WikiProject Doctor Who Award
		For your work on keeping Wikipedia's DW articles encyclopedic MarnetteD | Talk 23:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Although this easily applies to our interactions in the past I was prompted to give you this by your AGF on the fan timeline on the An Unearthly Child that you tagged today. I am as big an anorak as the next person who is devoted to this show but the speculation that you tagged is a prime example of what is great for fan blogs but is hardly encyclopedic. On another note did you notice that another editor added an explanation for the "Bumper edition" term that we wondered about awhile ago? Cheers and keep up the good work. MarnetteD | Talk 23:42, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Thank you. Yes, I happen to have an original copy of Fury from the Deep Target novel, but have always been puzzled by that "Now a bumper volume!" description, because AFAIK there was never any other edition. Compare it to the VHS versions of The Five Doctors where "Special Edition" (BBCV 5734) actually meant something special (100 minutes) as opposed to the "normal" version (BBCV 4387, 90 minutes). --Redrose64 (talk) 11:08, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Fixed, thank you for pointing it out. -- Basilicofresco (msg) 06:37, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

Redrose64;

Apologies to the Wikipedia community. I'm the jerk who posted that the Flying Scotsman was at the NY Fair in '39. Of course you're right, it was the LMS Coronaion Scot. I based my edit on a membered picture I'd seen in a book years ago. Couldn't find the picture again, so googled "Flying Scotsman New York World's Fair" and got a forum post from some old codger who claimed that he saw the Scotsman it at the Fair when he was 6 years old, so I figured it must be right. He was as confused as I was, but at least he had the excuse of being 6 years old 70 years ago.

I promise to be more careful before editing in the future.

PS, don't feel too smug, I once read a review of the film Fargo in the Guardian, where the reviewer informed his British readership that Fargo is a city in the American state of Minneapolis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.49.0 (talk) 21:47, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

Prior to that film, most Limeys had only heard of Fargo in the context of Wells Fargo. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:00, 11 July 2011 (UTC)

The breadth of your knowledge (and the extent of your library) never ceases to impress. Reading the article, I couldn't help thinking that the claims to fame merit at least a DYK. I would propose them myself, but thought I should leave the honour to you. Lamberhurst (talk) 09:04, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

Already under consideration! I was reading the SLS book on NBR locos, reached Wheatley, and noticed the compound. Not recalling any other NBR compounds, I went to Tom Pearce-Carr's "Compound Locomotives of the British Isles", where I found that the relevant chapter (of just three paragraphs) concluded with "Surely, a locomotive with more claim to fame than most!". So, with the idea of getting a DYK out of it, I went off gathering books before starting on the text, which is why much of the "References" section is hidden inside comment tags.

However, there has been a related DYK before (see Portal:Trains/Did you know/January 2010), and the disaster itself was an OTD in 2008 so I want to expand the bit about the compound with a view to pushing that aspect. A hook with three claims is what I'm after. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:24, 14 July 2011 (UTC)

The GA has passed - well done! Bob talk 22:00, 24 July 2011 (UTC)

This user helped promote NBR 224 and 420 Classes to good article status.

On 23 July 2011, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article NBR 224 and 420 Classes, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that no. 224 of the North British Railway (pictured post-accident) was the first inside-cylinder 4-4-0 and the first tandem compound to run in Great Britain; and the locomotive involved in the Tay Bridge disaster? You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and add it to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 16:03, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the fix of the reference. I'm hoping that there's a FA here in the not too long term. Mjroots (talk) 21:16, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

	Congratulations!
	Thanks for all the work you did in making NBR 224 and 420 Classes a certified "Good Article"! Your work is much appreciated. In the spirit of celebration, you may wish to review one of the Good Article nominees that someone else nominated, as there is currently a backlog, and any help is appreciated. All the best, – Quadell (talk)

—Preceding undated comment added 12:09, 26 July 2011.

Wow that was quick! I was hoping someone would fix my inept alterations to the map. Thanks Fu Manchuchu (talk) 14:48, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

• Excellent advice, much appreciated, thanks. Paste _{Let’s have a chat.} 15:07, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for catching that. I can safely say that you would have more knowledge on that than me. :) --User:Woohookitty ^{Disamming fool!} 12:15, 5 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting and removing my misplaced signature on the thoroughbred racing discussion page - don't know how that happened but thanks!--Bcp67 (talk) 21:41, 30 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks - I'm not sure if a 1890s french source is 100% certain to be metric horsepower. I'm assuming it is but have left out the conversions just in case.Imgaril (talk) 14:20, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for the comment on my userpage (Discussion section) about not wikilinking dates unnecessarily. Any bit of discipline in Wikipedia can only be a good thing. I know that it is sometimes enticing to get into the habit of wikilinking. You might have seen a semi-serious article in Wikipedia entitled "Wikipedia: Editcountitis". I have suggested there ought to be a similar page on "Wikilinkitis" - and I shall confess that I am a prime culprit here! Seriously, though, thank you for your advice with Wikipedia style. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 14:26, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

I saw your modifying edit to my reference changes on the polyphasic sleep article. Thanks for making that; I was unaware that the "day" parameter was deprecated. If I have the whole date, I'll use the "date" parameter from now on! Wingman4l7 (talk) 22:19, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Thanks; the curious thing about this is that although using separate |day=|month=|year= paranmeters will display a date, it also puts the page into hidden Category:Pages containing cite templates with deprecated parameters. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:22, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

That is interesting; I guess they did it that way so it doesn't break previous uses of |day= but it lets people clean them up... and anyone reading the newer documentation won't make that mistake. Thanks for using that talkback template, I didn't know that existed -- I wish I had known about it before, it would have made some earlier conversations much easier. Wingman4l7 (talk) 01:23, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

Hello again. Thanks for taking the time to give me all the info and links regarding the various versions of the logo. That is just the kind of thing that I like to learn. Living in the US I was buying the region 1 DVDs and liked the fact that their artwork on their covers was larger. Once I got a region free DVD player (and not liking to wait) I started ordering the UK releases so this info is much appreciated. I hope that you are enjoying your admin duties (well, as much as one can anyway) and I'm glad you are still keeping an eye on things Dr Who. Cheers. MarnetteD | Talk 22:27, 16 November 2011 (UTC)

Many thanks for your rapid response.

I have just today transferred to a new laptop, and am sorting out the usual batch of glitches as I find them. Currently I don't seem able to access Adobe file, so can't follow the links you have kindly provided. Sounds though as if they will solve my queries, and when I get sorted I will follow this up. Thanks again for the help. Flying Stag (talk) 21:08, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you, I was just trying to avoid close paraphrasing :( J3Mrs (talk) 21:31, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the correction. I am used to french tool and sometimes don't have the good ones in english. Have a nice day.--Ulikleafar (talk) 20:50, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

Thank you for welcoming me to the website. EminamaDron Feel free to talk to me My Contributions 00:00, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

On 30 November 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article West Auckland railway station, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the locomotive depot near West Auckland railway station was the only one to be both closed completely and later reopened by the London and North Eastern Railway? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/West Auckland railway station. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:03, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

On 8 February 2014, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Eric Butler-Henderson, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Great Central Railway locomotive no. 506, now preserved and restored for display at the Barrow Hill Engine Shed, was named after Eric Butler-Henderson when it entered service in 1919? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eric Butler-Henderson. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

The DYK project (nominate) 12:47, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

On 3 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Anna Bråkenhielm, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the reality entertainment concept Expedition Robinson (also known as Survivor) was bought by CEO Anna Bråkenhielm and aired on Swedish television in 1997? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Anna Bråkenhielm. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Chris Woodrich (talk) 06:12, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

@Crisco 1492: How do I qualify? All I did was two edits: add DEFAULTSORT and fix a link. --Redrose64 (talk) 10:18, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

• BabbaQ added credits for you and several other editors with this edit. It appears s/he figured that was enough for credit. Afterwards said credit templates were copied over into the preparatory areas and queues. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 10:23, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

• Must have been a mistake of mine. Sorry guys. Well, its just a credit. :)--BabbaQ (talk) 11:49, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

On 16 March 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Raymond Butt, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station, halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Raymond Butt. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Raymond Butt), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

 — Amakuru (talk) 00:01, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

And I hardly did a thing to it. Yay! --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:11, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

You were a guiding presence in the background RedRose. Philafrenzy (talk) 21:15, 21 March 2019 (UTC)

On 9 May 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Croydon Aerodrome robbery, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that only one of the gang that carried out the Croydon Aerodrome gold bullion robbery in 1935 was convicted, and the gold was never found? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Croydon Aerodrome robbery. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Croydon Aerodrome robbery), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

— Maile (talk) 00:02, 9 May 2019 (UTC)

On 4 August 2019, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Challacombe scale, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that the Challacombe scale assesses the severity of a dry mouth (illustration shown)? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Challacombe scale. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Challacombe scale), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Gatoclass (talk) 00:01, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

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