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As soon as I come up to this page I immediatly come across the decor that's mentioned on one of the WP:UPDC subpages. Just had to say :) ResMar03:13, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
This award is given to you for helping out Motto of the day. Thanks to your effort, MOTD has brilliantly and successfully passed the most difficult period of the year. In fact, there are mottoes scheduled until the end of the summer. For this reason MOTD would like to express heartfelt thanks to you for your support. We appreciate your efforts in further helping the project! – delivered by Simply south on behalf of Wikipedia:Motto of the day23:07, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Friendly notice
WHAT?!? You are twelve too?!? I've always thought I've never seen anyone my age at WP before. I never bothered to look at your userpage... Good work at the MOTD! (though I still don't understand what you meant by 'suggestions', a few months back). Kayau VotingISevil00:58, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
Yesterday I went to my new school I saw the bully and his best friend too He laughed at me and called me names I showed him WP:CIVIL and WP:NOOB
The bell rang and in came the teacher Who told us to be on our best behaviour And so I raised up my hand and retorted, ‘Please, miss, read WP:NPOV and WP:OR!’
And then the teacher looked very angry So she taught us about modern history. ‘Blair was a prime minister,’ she said ‘Please, miss, read WP:V and WP:BLP!’
So she told me to skip lunch today And at the detention room I was to stay. So I showed her WP:BURO And look! She showed me WP:NOT#DEM!
Straight to the principal’s room I went And said some words which were well meant I shouted WP:NOBIGDEAL And off I went, for I was on a WP:WB! And a rhyme break, too!
Thanks for letting me know about that, I'll see what I can do. Thanks for the motto by the way, the template I'm working on is in my sandbox at the moment. WVRMAD•Talk •Guestbook 11:36, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps cutting out copy-vio portions in the case of this clearly notable BLP is a better idea than putting a CSD tag.203.88.8.1 (talk) 12:15, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, sorry about that - I'll start that now. However, most of the images will have to go, the only image I have found that isn't a copyright violation from the internet is File:Nandasena perera.jpg, which looks like it has almost certainly been taken from somewhere but I couldn't find on Google images. WVRMAD•Talk •Guestbook 12:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Hello WVRMad, Kayau has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Hello. I deleted this as an attack page. Started out as a lovely travelogue about Adelaide, right? Then it went on to say some very unpleasant things about the subject. Happy editing. Dlohcierekim 14:03, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
New page patrolling
Hello, first let me say thanks for your efforts—NPP is an endless and thankless task, but an essential one. That said, please have a little more consideration over maintenance taggings. Edits like this one aren't very helpful a mere 7 minutes after the creation. I don't know about you, but I can't write a featured article in 7 minutes! It's usually better to give the article a few hours to develop before tagging if it doesn't meet the speedy deletion criteria. :) Best, HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 15:09, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm was in a rush and didn't spend long enough thinking about what I was doing (my mum was yelling at me to come for dinner). I'll try to avoid doing it in the future and also intend to do a lot less NPP over the next few months, partly because school is starting back from summer holidays soon and partly because I want to do more actual article creating and writing.
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Hello, I have completed a general cleanup of the adopter information page for the adopt-a-user project, located here. During my cleanup, I have removed several inactive and retired users. In order to provide interested adoptees with an easy location to find adopters, it is essential that the page be up-to-date with the latest information possible. Thus:
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If you are still interested, please check the list to see if any information needs to be updated or added - especially your availability. Thank you.
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Hi, about my page on Vincent Allard. I knew him personaly, he was, like I say, my second father. I still have some entomological works to place on this page. Please explain what I must do. I am not a writer, I am only an entomologist. Thanks.Jacqueshb (talk) 18:08, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
More about new page patrolling
Taggings such as this, two minutes after an editor has indicated that he or she will be working on the article for 30 minutes, are disruptive to the building of this encyclopaedia. Please be more careful. Phil Bridger (talk) 18:27, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
Hello WVRMad, Sabrinamagers has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling at someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Go on, smile! Cheers, and happy editing! Smile at others by adding {{subst:Smile}} to their talk page with a friendly message.
Hi there WVRMad! You may be wondering, what have I done to sound the alarm this time? Nothing. I'm messaging you in regards to the adopt-a-user program, which currently has a backlog of users wishing to be adopted. This doesn't make much sense, as we have a considerable list of users offer adoption, so there shouldn't be any backlog. I've begun to eliminate this backlog myself through a matching program, but I need your help to make it work. Of course, adoptees and adopters don't have to go through there, but I believe it helps eliminate the backlog because someone is actively matching pairs.
On the list of adopters, I have modified the middle column to say "Interests." It's easier working with other users that have similar interests, so if it's not too much to ask, could you add your interests in the middle column? For example, if I was interested in hurricanes, computers, business, and ... reptiles? I would place those in the middle column. Counter-vandalism and the like can also be included (maintenance should be used as the general term). The more interests, the better, since adoptees can learn more about you and choose the one they feel most comfortable working with. The information about when you're most active and other stuff can go into the "Notes" section to the right.
Finally, I've gone around and asked adoptees (and will in the future) to fill in a short survey so adopters can take the initiative and contact users they feel comfortable working with. We all know that most adoptees just place the adopt me template on their user page and leave it - so it's up to us to approach them and offer adoption. So, please take a look at the survey, adopt those that fit your interests, and maybe watchlist it so you can see the interests of adoptees and adopt one that fits your interests in the future.
Once again, thank you for participating in the adopt-a-user program! If you wish to respond to this post, please message me on my talk page.
CONT arrows problem; more to it than first appears
There seems to be a strange cache problem with these icons that make some of them seem to be facing the wrong way. Add to that the fact that someone has decided that all the arrows should face the same way and there is a discussion over which way that should be, and you have a tangle. sorry about that. There may be more about it on the railway project page. Britmax (talk) 15:59, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, I refreshed the cache and corrected all the other maps but I'll have to keep an eye out for any more trouble. I also talked to Redrose64 and our conversation is currently here. By the way, where was this discussion about the direction of the arrows? I'd be interested to know.
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Railway maps
Damn your edit notice is large and annoying.
Regarding your adding the Bristol to Gloucester railway map to a lot of pages - I'm not sure this is useful. They're all linked to the line page anyway. The Bristol railway map is there to give an overview of how the station is in context of the region. If we follow your reasoning, a page like Bristol Temple Meads will end up without about 10 different maps on it, and that tends to break the transclusion limit. -mattbuck (Talk) 12:57, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
If the map is an area map, I normally don't add it to the railway station articles but I if the station is on that line, then I usually add it. With the Bristol and Gloucester map, I though that many station did not have a clear map to show where they are (especially between Yate and Gloucester). I won't add large maps like that to lots of station again but I will continue adding branch line maps to the stations had I feel it adds a bit of context to the article.
As for the edit notice - well that just sums up my edits today, large and annoying!
I agree that many stations have inadequate articles, and I'm not against adding maps in principle, the problem is if we follow it to its logical conclusion. Oh, and please don't use talkpage on me, I do watch your talkpage, and have been since you started :p -mattbuck (Talk) 13:28, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
Berkeley and nearby stations
Re this and similar edits: on 1 July 1894 the GWR and Midland jointly purchased the Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway, which retained its title; on 1 January 1923 the Midland of course became part of the LMS, but the S&W&SBR remained a railway company in its own right, albeit now jointly owned by the GWR & LMS. That this was the case is borne out by the Third Schedule of the Transport Act 1947, original page 147; (see the PDF linked after "Download Link" here; in Acrobat Reader it's page 151), where it states "The London Midland and Scottish and Great Western Railways Joint Committee (Severn and Wye and Severn Bridge Railway)". Therefore the S&W&SBR was both the pre-grouping and post-grouping railway of this station; it certainly didn't become solely GWR as you are implying. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:42, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I presumed that the line S&W company was dissolved after the grouping of the line and the management was passed directly onto the GWR and LMS as the S&W was obsolete after the grouping. I'm afraid I don't have internet to sites other than Google and Wikipedia/Wikimedia so I can't see the PDF. WVRMAD•Talk •Guestbook 17:15, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Of the joint railways which existed prior to the 1923 Grouping, very few were actually mentioned in the Railways Act 1921, so those not explicitly mentioned could have continued in existence. A few - such as the Portpatrick and Wigtownshire Joint (placed in the group which became the LMS) - were so mentioned, but the S&W&SBR was not among them. Of the joint railways not mentioned, several (such as the Great Northern and Great Eastern Joint Railway) found that all their owners had become part of the same group company (in this case the LNER), so the joint railway itself voluntarily sold out to the new organisation; but where the joint owners ended up in different groups, the joint railway invariably continued in existence, although with new owners.
The Transport Act 1947, under which the railways were nationalised, took no chances and explicitly named most (if not all) the joint railways, so there were no loopholes. --Redrose64 (talk) 18:52, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
Thanks for letting me know, I see you have already corrected the main line diagram and I am working on the branch line diagram, as it needs a complete redesign of the lower half to change the junction. I have also corrected Template:Alton Line which had the same junction included. Thanks again, WVRMad•Talk•Guestbook17:46, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I just did a quick reverse of edit to the South Western Main Line as it has a much more visibility than the other articles. I'm not sure if the branch had a platform of its own at Brookwood. Scillystuff (talk) 18:02, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
I'm afraid I wouldn't know, as I've explained to Redrose64, I don't have the internet on sites other than Wikipedia and BBC so I can't browse the web to find the answer. None of the current maps show it having a platform (because I've created them) but the map I based the branch line on (see here) didn't show it having a platform either so I presume it doesn't. WVRMad•Talk•Guestbook18:20, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
What an utter waste of "Talk" and mis-editing the above was. "don't know"s leading to changes and counterchanges. The Brookwood situation was clear (and verifiable, even if not to WP's high standard, by Googling for the Necropolis). The edit summaries give no hint of or reason for changing BS7s to BS6s, I don't think BS6s use much less electricity yet an extra column is often useful for amendments. One hopes yr hundreds of edits this mo. are a tad more thought about.--SilasW (talk) 18:14, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Haven't you read the above? I don't have the internet on sites other than Wikipedia so I can't Google it and the only mistake was a small junction direction change, easily fixed. As for the BS conversion, that had nothing to do with the conversation above, I saw that it could easily be narrowed down to a BS6 without little work and the narrower the map, the less room it takes up which is better in my opinion. What do you mean by counterchanges? All I did was make a mistake which was reverted once, the next time I edited the page (coincidently only a day later), I was doing something else. As for the discussion on whether the Necropolis line had a branch at Brookwood station above, well, that was just me and Scillystuff putting our heads together to see if we could improve the maps, the map didn't show the line having a platform originally and we never changed it because we found out otherwise. WVRMad•Talk•Guestbook18:43, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Way above that you say in apparent contradiction (admittedly a puzzling thing) "I don't have internet to sites other than Google and Wikipedia/Wikimedia". (JHC knows how that can be unless you are either under legal constraint or an untrustworthy child.) The SWML was changed to have the wrong connection and then changed back - I do not know why it was altered to be wrong - a feeling that it originally seemed wrong was no ground for that.--SilasW (talk) 21:50, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
Why should it matter to you why I don't have internet to other sites? As a matter of fact I am a thirteen year old boy with cautious parents - what's wrong with that? WVRMad•Talk•Guestbook17:57, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
