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User talk:WVRMad/Archive 1
Wye Valley railway Map
Use {{Wye Valley Railway}} for standard or {{Wye Valley Railway|collapse=yes}} for default collapsed (eg for station pages). Give me a shout if there are any problems. -mattbuck (Talk) 21:12, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
Coleford Railway MapThanks for the offer Mattbuck, I am not desperately in need of it right now but you are welcome to make it... Wye Valley Railway Mad (talk) 17:51, 5 July 2009 (UTC) A word of advice...Just to say that what you're doing looks fine, in general, but if I could just give you one tip it would be to be a little more informative in your edit summaries. Instead of saying "expanding article", it would be more helpful if you could outline in a few words what changes you've made, and in the same way when you're commenting on talk pages it would be sometimes more helpful to put in the summary something more informative than just "talk". Other than that, your edits are really useful and well considered. Happy editing! Ghmyrtle (talk) 20:09, 8 July 2009 (UTC) Thanks for the tip. Wye Valley Railway Mad (talk) 15:14, 9 July 2009 (UTC) Possible adoptionI'll consider adopting you. To address your first questions, you can set your signature format in Special:Preferences. You seem to already have the basic idea, but I can give further tips. As for the arrows, see Wikipedia:Edit_summaries#Section_editing and Wikipedia:Edit_summaries#Automatic_summaries. These are auto-generated, so you usually don't have to worry about them. You can always write your own summary instead (or in addition for section editing). One thing I would like to know is whether you have previously edited Wikipedia with another account. Feel free to contact me at Special:EmailUser/Superm401 if you prefer (you may need to enable email in your preferences). Best, Superm401 - Talk 06:51, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Improving Wye Valley Railway MapAnytime! I thought the less complicated version worked just as well for both diagrams. Britmax (talk) 11:05, 17 July 2009 (UTC) WP:NODRAMA reminderThanks for signing up for the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Wikipedia stands to benefit from the improvements in the article space as a result of this campaign. This is a double reminder. First, the campaign begins on July 18, 2009 at 00:00 (UTC). Second, please remember to log any articles you have worked on during the campaign at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/Log. Thanks again for your participation! --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 22:01, 17 July 2009 (UTC) Page movementHi, instead of just copy/pasting pages to a new name, it's better to use the move button, as this keeps the history intact. -mattbuck (Talk) 11:46, 19 July 2009 (UTC) Thank you for making WP:NODRAMA a success!Thank you again for your support of the Great Wikipedia Dramaout. Preliminary statistics indicate that 129 new articles were created, 203 other articles were improved, and 183 images were uploaded. Additionally, 41 articles were nominated for DYK, of which at least 2 have already been promoted. There are currently also 8 articles up for GA status and 3 up for FA/FL status. Though the campaign is technically over, please continue to update the log page at WP:NODRAMA/L with any articles which you worked during the campaign, and also to note any that receive commendation, such as DYK, GA or FA status. You may find the following links helpful in nominating your work:
Again, thank you for making this event a success! --Jayron32.talk.say no to drama 02:21, 23 July 2009 (UTC)  Hi there, WVRMad! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends. MOTD Needs Your Help! Delivered By –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:31, 24 July 2009 (UTC) Template MapsThe maps are great. :) They really contribute to the articles, and I don't see any problems. Superm401 - Talk 21:04, 27 July 2009 (UTC) Section with a scroll barHi, WVRMad. It's actually very easy. Just enclose the HTML you want to "windowize" in within the body of a pair of <div> </div> tags. You'll then want to define the size of the window, and tell the interpreter that the window shouldn't expand beyond that size, but scroll instead. You can to this by defining the height and overflow properties, as follows.
Let me know if you have any problems. Hope that helps! – ClockworkSoul 04:06, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
Edit count errorsHey, WVRMAD. The two issues you saw are unrelated. The error at http://stable.toolserver.org/editcount/ seems to be an error in a servlet that is connecting to the toolserver database. When you click the link, you get a SSL error, because jira.ts.wikimedia.org is using an invalid SSL certificate. They're misidentifying themselves, so Firefox (which I do use) is warning you. I would do the "Add Exception" process (even though Wikimedia should fix this too). Superm401 - Talk 09:08, 5 August 2009 (UTC) Scott McGannI'm trying to create a page for Scott McGann and the LaGuardia hoax bomb incident that's been all over the news. What I published was just a first draft -- was I wrong to do this? His story impacted tens of thousands of people; what more should I do to prove notability? --Mike Schiraldi (talk) 19:00, 7 August 2009 (UTC) Scott McGann, continuedSo I've now added citations demonstrating his notability. How do I get the speedy-deletion nomination removed? --Mike Schiraldi (talk) 19:19, 7 August 2009 (UTC) Speedy deletion contested: Scott McGannHello WVRMad, and thanks for your work patrolling new changes. I am just informing you that I contested the speedy deletion of Scott McGann - a page you tagged - because: The article makes a credible assertion of notability, sufficient to pass A7. Please review the criteria for speedy deletion before tagging further pages. If you have any questions or problems, please let me know. NW (Talk) 01:32, 8 August 2009 (UTC) Latin mottoI think the motto is cute, albeit a little (not excessively) obscure. I also can't vouch for the translation, since I don't know Latin. Be bold and submit it. Superm401 - Talk 04:48, 11 August 2009 (UTC) Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBotSuggestBot predicts that you will enjoy editing some of these articles. Have fun! SuggestBot picks articles in a number of ways based on other articles you've edited, including straight text similarity, following wikilinks, and matching your editing patterns against those of other Wikipedians. It tries to recommend only articles that other Wikipedians have marked as needing work. Your contributions make Wikipedia better -- thanks for helping. If you have feedback on how to make SuggestBot better, please tell me on SuggestBot's talk page. Thanks from ForteTuba, SuggestBot's caretaker. P.S. You received these suggestions because your name was listed on the SuggestBot request page. If this was in error, sorry about the confusion. -- SuggestBot (talk) 22:16, 12 August 2009 (UTC) User pageGreat job! – ClockworkSoul 14:45, 16 August 2009 (UTC) Omnifone article revisionsHi WVRMad, Thanks for your editing suggestions on the Omnifone article. Following your suggestions I have added citations to the article to ensure it is correctly referenced, verifiable and accurate (and therefore encyclopedic). Would it be possible for you to revisit the article and see what you think as we would like it to meet with your approval? Many thanks Tho2009 (talk) 10:50, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
File:Perrygrove Railway.xcfHey, it looks like File:Perrygrove Railway.xcf was deleted by Feydey. In the future, consider exporting the xcf (Gimp) file as a PNG. See http://docs.gimp.org/2.2/en/export-file-dialog.html for some details. Let me know if I can help with anything else. Superm401 - Talk 20:17, 18 August 2009 (UTC) Hereford, Ross and Gloucester RailwayHi, we seem to be cross editing on the HRGR article so to avoid confusion I'll work on the missing stations. Rsloch (talk) 15:21, 31 August 2009 (UTC) Talkback You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template. Abce2|From the top now!Arggggg! 21:46, 3 September 2009 (UTC) Motto of the DayHello I am contacting you because you seem to be active recently in WP:MOTD. There has been a lack of interest lately, and I would greatly appreciate it if you responded to my comments on the MOTD talk page. Cheers. --LAAFansign review 03:48, 22 September 2009 (UTC) Editor review archivedSince it has been well over 30 days since you requested to be reviewed, I've gone ahead and archived your request as part of my effort to cleanup Editor Review. You may view your review here. Thanks & happy editing. If you have any questions, please message me on my talk page. =D Netalarmtalk 05:02, 24 October 2009 (UTC) File permission problem with File:Severn Bridge railway station.png Thanks for uploading File:Severn Bridge railway station.png. I noticed that while you provided a valid copyright licensing tag, there is no proof that the creator of the file agreed to license it under the given license. If you created this media entirely yourself but have previously published it elsewhere (especially online), please either
If you did not create it entirely yourself, please ask the person who created the file to take one of the two steps listed above, or if the owner of the file has already given their permission to you via email, please forward that email to permissions-en If you believe the media meets the criteria at Wikipedia:Non-free content, use a tag such as {{non-free fair use in|article name}} or one of the other tags listed at Wikipedia:Image copyright tags#Fair use, and add a rationale justifying the file's use on the article or articles where it is included. See Wikipedia:Image copyright tags for the full list of copyright tags that you can use. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have provided evidence that their copyright owners have agreed to license their works under the tags you supplied, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. Files lacking evidence of permission may be deleted one week after they have been tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you. ww2censor (talk) 05:05, 29 October 2009 (UTC) MOTD contributionsThis is a general message to get people to contribute as we are running out again so if you could please do. Please also see Wikipedia talk:Motto of the day#The Future. Note to anyone who reads this, WP:MOTD/N. Simply south (talk) 15:58, 13 November 2009 (UTC) Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway What was the rail gauge of the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway? Peter Horn User talk 00:24, 21 November 2009 (UTC))
Hi! As you have expressed an interest in the initial The Great Wikipedia Dramaout, you're being notified because we are currently planning another one in January! We hope to have an even greater level of participation this time around, and we need your help. If you're still interested please sign up now at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/2nd. Thanks, and Happy Holidays! JCbot (talk) 04:46, 16 December 2009 (UTC) End of adoptionYou're welcome, and I wish you the greatest success. Feel free to chat any time. Superm401 - Talk 19:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC) File:Grange Court Junction.png listed for deletionAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Grange Court Junction.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. bjh21 (talk) 10:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC) --bjh21 (talk) 10:50, 9 January 2010 (UTC) File:Holme Lacy railway station 2.png listed for deletionAn image or media file that you uploaded or altered, File:Holme Lacy railway station 2.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. bjh21 (talk) 13:47, 9 January 2010 (UTC) Just a quick reminder that the Second Great Wikipedia Dramaout has begun. Please log any work you do at Wikipedia:The Great Wikipedia Dramaout/2nd/Log. Good luck! --Jayron32 02:01, 18 January 2010 (UTC) Busy!I have not been able to do much editing recently due to a dodgy internet connection, I will hopefully be able to start editing more soon. WVRMAD•Talk •Guestbook 13:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
File copyright problem with File:Under construction!.jpgThank you for uploading File:Under construction!.jpg. However, it currently is missing information on its copyright status. Wikipedia takes copyright very seriously. It may be deleted soon, unless we can determine the license and the source of the file. If you know this information, then you can add a copyright tag to the image description page. If you have uploaded other files, consider checking that you have specified their license and tagged them, too. You can find a list of files you have uploaded by following this link. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them at the media copyright questions page. Thanks again for your cooperation. FASTILYsock(TALK) 21:38, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
Tutshill HaltRe this edit; I got the "for Beachley" part from Butt, R. V. J. (October 1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. p. 236. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199. OL 11956311M. --Redrose64 (talk) 19:20, 21 April 2010 (UTC) Thanks and an invitationHigh WVRMad - thanks for the advice about signing edits of Wikipedia entries. If you feel like spending a day in the real world please come and play trains on my railway some time. There is a footplate waiting for you. Not quite as much fun as riding up the valley from Chepstow to Monmouth, but the best I can offer, and jolly good fun! Michael Crofts Perrygrove Railway 01594 834991 Here are my four tildes, hope it works (can't really understand it) MKCatPerrygrove (talk) 20:56, 22 April 2010 (UTC) MOTD ProblemPlease read this when you get a moment. Thanks! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:46, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
Support MOTDHello, Motto of the Day is currently running out of mottos and therefore we would appreciate your support in this project. Please suggest new mottos or support for others at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review. If you have any ideas for mottos on a special date or anniversary, or you are interested in what other ones of thdse there are please see Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials. Thank you for your time. Simply south (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
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