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For the well-referenced creation of the Budd SPV-2000 article. Great work! oknazevad ( talk) 22:52, 26 May 2014 (UTC) |
Mackensen,
For a Father's Day gift, I've helped my father (David) digitize and upload railroad-related slides that he and his (late) father (Lawrence) took, mostly in the 1960s and 1970s. He generously agreed to release their rights under a CC-BY-SA license when we uploaded them to Flickr, which has allowed me to essentially port them to Wikimedia Commons. While it will probably take me a couple of days to upload all of them on Commons (I've just started), I have created a hidden category in which they will all be filed: commons:Category:Photographs by Lawrence and David Barera.
I know from your numerous and helpful edits of my own person railroad-related photos that you are very good at identifying locomotives, and I'd love to categorize these images more specifically than "E-unit", "F-unit", "Geep", and "Alco". My Dad was really helpful with identifying locations and (with the aid of a box of old timetables) even specific trains, but he's not so sure about the locomotives (although he's suspicious that there are a lot of EMD E7s, F7s, and GP7s/GP9s in these photos). I'd really appreciate any help you can give me with categorizing these photos, especially in terms of locomotives. Thanks!
Michael Barera ( talk) 02:17, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
I've tried to identify the remaining unidentified locomotives as best I can in my sandbox, mostly with the aid of roster lists. I've never tried doing this before, so I'd love your opinion (and hopefully confirmation) on my preliminary identifications before I make any edits. Thanks! Michael Barera ( talk) 00:50, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 3 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Sun Lounge (railcar), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's Sun Lounges (pictured) featured lamps made from driftwood? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Sun Lounge (railcar). 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. |
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Thank you so much for all your help categorizing the railroad-related photographs taken by Lawrence and David Barera, in addition to countless other rail photos. Please accept this barnstar as a small token of my appreciation. I know that categorization and recategorization are sometimes overlooked contributions on Wikimedia Commons, but I really, really do appreciate all of the hard work you've done that makes it easier for everyone to find and use all of these wonderful rail photos. Thanks again! Michael Barera ( talk) 02:47, 7 June 2014 (UTC) |
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— Crisco 1492 ( talk) 09:07, 15 June 2014 (UTC)
Great job with the SPV-2000 article. I had no idea there was one at Willimantic. I've been meaning to get a couple pictures there anyway; if you remind me around the 24th of August, I can run up during the week I'm in the area. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 00:05, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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![]() | On 7 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Night Owl (train), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that, as a senator, Vice President Joe Biden occasionally overslept on Amtrak's Night Owl and woke up in Philadelphia instead of Wilmington, Delaware? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Night Owl (train). 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. |
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![]() | On 14 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article 1990 Back Bay rail accident, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that in the 1990 Back Bay rail accident, Amtrak's Night Owl jumped the track and hit an MBTA commuter train, causing both to jackknife through the tunnel roof to the street above? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/1990 Back Bay rail accident. 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. |
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I apprrecite your looking at the DYK. You brought forward a few concerns:
Thanks, again. Schmidt, Michael Q. 02:42, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
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Hello. I would like to briefly ask your permission to move your userspace article, "Parlor car," into Wikipedia's mainspace. I noticed that the article was started in 2009, and last edited in September of 2013. Since it took you almost five years to bring the article to its current state — which, admittedly, is not very big on content — and the fact that you haven't worked on it in almost a year, leads me to believe that the article would be in better hands in the mainspace, where all editors can collaborate on it to bring it up to a worthy state.
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Thus, I believe the article in question would benefit greatly from being moved into the mainspace as soon as possible.
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I notice that you commenced a Good Article nomination for Broadway Limited. I have actually contributed to the article on a limited basis and its talk page. Would it be untoward or against some rule if I did the review? I'm not sure I can at this time, but I'd like to if I can find the time and if someone doesn't get there before me, as I actually rode the Broadway Limited a couple of times some years ago and have great affection for it. Given my interest I'm torn between fixing the article and reviewing it. I actually attempted to do the former and had difficulty locating sources. Coretheapple ( talk) 17:43, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 20 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Great Central Station, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that on its 1856 opening, the Illinois Central Railroad's Great Central Station was the largest building in Chicago? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Great Central Station. 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. |
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Hi! I understand that you believe that there was no justified reason for me to remove such large portions of the Amtrak article from the section titled Operations and Services but I would like to inform you that I have moved nearly all of the original content to the more appropriate Amtrak Trains and Services page. I feel that it will be much easier in the future for users to find the information pertaining to Amtrak's trains and services now that it has been separated into a dedicated Wikipedia page and it has also helped to reduce the size of the main Amtrak article, which seems to have become a little overwhelming in size.
I do understand that seemingly removing 1/3 of the pages content could be misconstrued as vandalism, but I assure you that if you visit the Amtrak Trains and Services page, you will find what was originally on the Amtrak page, word for word.
-- Cmitchellichs ( talk) 23:12, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
I have reverting the undoings on my work on the "Amtrak Trains and Services" page and renamed it to "Amtrak Trains, Operations, and Services." I have also opened a discussion on the talk page for the original Amtrak article in order to appeal to the community so that I may remove the information once more, but for now, my work on that page has been undone once more. The discussion explains my reasonings and I hope that you will take it into consideration.
I request that you refrain from undoing my work on the "Amtrak Trains, Operations, and Services" so that the community can visibly see what I would like to accomplish. I assure you that the information holds a relevant space there.
-- Cmitchellichs ( talk) 00:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
@ Cmitchellichs: so that there's no misunderstanding, I reverted you once and did not regard your change as vandalism (as I indicated in my edit summary). Rather, I saw you make a bold change and decided to revert it because I thought discussion was necessary. Please see WP:BRD for more information. Best, Mackensen (talk) 12:15, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
![]() | On 28 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Seminole (train), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Illinois Central Railroad's Seminole Limited was the first passenger train to provide year-round service between Chicago, Illinois and Jacksonville, Florida? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Seminole (train). 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. |
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![]() | On 30 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Indianapolis Traction Terminal, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Indianapolis Traction Terminal was reputedly the largest interurban terminal ever built? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Indianapolis Traction Terminal. 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. |
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![]() | On 6 September 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Streamliners (Illinois Terminal Railroad), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Illinois Terminal Railroad's Streamliners (pictured) were the last interurbans built in the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Streamliners (Illinois Terminal Railroad). 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. |
Cas Liber ( talk · contribs) 12:02, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
I saw a typo in this article. I am not sure how to fix it so I thought I'd tell you and you can fix it. The word "teasing" is obviously wrong. - GroveGuy ( talk) 16:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
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— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:08, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
Why did you add an "unreliable source" tag to my citations of the Twilight Shoreliner in the film 'My, Myself, and Irene'? I feel I have made a good faith effort to provide plenty of visual confirmation of the train in that movie. I thought it was pretty cool that the train and its extremely picturesque route figures so prominently in that film. Can you think of another popular movie in the past 15 years in which an Amtrak sleeper train is involved to such a degree? I can't. I thought it was worth mentioning this in the article, especially since this train is no longer in operation and 'Me, Myself, and Irene' is probably the single best visual record of it that exists at the present time. You get to see the whole train in action, exteriors and interiors, and both sleepers and coach. This is a worthy addition to the article. What's unreliable about it?
Adkisaac ( talk) 12:32, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
...never try to bring an article to GA status without having the primary author on board. You and your partner have had your way because I was undergoing a medical procedure, but I back, and I am not going to allow the two of youto ruin the article. The article is in good shape, it doesn't need some bureaucratic stamp of approval to be "good". BMK ( talk) 22:45, 13 September 2014 (UTC)
@ Beyond My Ken:: regarding GA summary page, I reverted what I saw as a bold edit on your part for which I thought you should get consensus. That's how WP:BRD works, as you well know. I have no idea how a discussion on an article, which has been nominated for GA status, has any bearing of this. I have opened a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Good articles which is what you should have done in the first place. Mackensen (talk) 10:52, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
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![]() | On 8 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Merchants Limited, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad's Merchants Limited was the last all- parlor car passenger train in the United States? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Merchants Limited. 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. |
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![]() | On 10 October 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Pacific International, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Pacific International was Amtrak's first international passenger train? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Pacific International. 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. |
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Thanks for the heads up on that, i intend to add much more if i can in time. I am just new to this so im not 100% sure if everything i do is ok and goes with the rules. Is there any tips or guides u can recommend to do this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carlos118 ( talk • contribs) 12:26, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
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![]() | On 1 November 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Capital Beltway (Amtrak station), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Capital Beltway was one of two park and ride stations built specifically for the high-speed Metroliner passenger train? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Capital Beltway (Amtrak station). 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. |
— HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 12:02, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
Yes, I meant to move Rajwansher railway station to Budgam railway station because the latter is more commonly used and well known to people of Kashmir. Have I done the wrong move by tagging WP:CSD A6 the article. Please let me know.
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Why did you revert my edit? https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Michigan_gubernatorial_election%2C_2006&diff=644651525&oldid=644644794 "(Undid revision 644645287 by Libertyguy (talk) please don't copy that here)" -- Libertyguy ( talk) 22:51, 7 February 2015 (UTC)
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I have again reverted (which you have also done numerous times) the massive unexplained deletions of material and sources added in recent weeks by both you and me to the "Overland Limited" article that you created last summer that have been disruptively made multiple times by user Tim Zukas with both his user account and under multiple IP sockpuppet addresses. All of ths IP sockpuppets geolocate to Oakland, CA, the Berkeley Public Library, and the University of California (Berkeley) to which Zukas is listed as a small financial contributor to the Bancroft Library there and which he has used to make similar disruptive edits to other transportation related articles such as Boeing 314 and Braniff International Airways. As with those articles, the deletions made by this user to the Overland Limited article all violate WP:PRESERVE, WP:UNRESPONSIVE and WP:CAUTIOUS. This user has a long demonstrated history over a period of several years of engaging in this type of disruptive editing as it revealed in multiple warnings and complaints against him posted in his talk page. As you are a WP sysop and have also served in other administrative capacities in the project, you have much more experience in dealing with stopping this type of disruptive behavior by editors such as this one than I do. It seems to me that the time has come to find a way do so as it is now clear that this user has no intention of ceasing his disruptive behavior and I am getting tired (as I am sure you are) of having to constantly revert his massive unexplained deletions. Thanks. Centpacrr ( talk) 14:24, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Long-term abuse: Tim Zukas which I have just been advised was created today by another editor relating to the very issue under discussion about the Overland Limited article. Centpacrr ( talk) 01:40, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
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Since you're both an admin and experienced with railroad articles, I'd appreciate if you could check out User talk:Secondarywaltz#Grand Trunk Stations. A user (Captain Thor) has repeatedly added external links to Grand Trunk Railway station articles in northern New England and refuses to listen to explanations; when I tried to point out that that was what categories are for, they started messing with categories in a way that strikes me as malicious. I'm not sure if they're actually a bad apple, or just in need of some perspective on how station articles are laid out and categories work. Thanks, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 05:04, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
I'm afraid our friend from Oakland has gone right back to his old practice or making unexplained mass deletions of material and sources in the Overland Limited article despite all the effort to deal with his challenges in the Dispute Resolution Forum. I can't fight these wholesale attacks on my own so please give me a hand. Centpacrr ( talk) 19:19, 2 April 2015 (UTC)
You declined my requested deletion of the Charlie Horse redirect because "article hasn't been accepted". Catch 22: I can't accept the article until the redirect is deleted. What next? ~ Kvng ( talk) 13:33, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
I am simply redirecting them to the newer versions per the consensus at Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2015_March_27#Old_Spam_Warnings. Please stop reverting and consider talking. Also you may want to view this old revision of Spam5. EoRdE6( Come Talk to Me!) 15:17, 7 April 2015 (UTC)
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How is that an attack page? Attack pages are insulting things and negative unsourced BLP's. That page was not close to that, it was just an April Fools' joke. Yes, disruptive jokes have to be removed, but that joke AfD you deleted isn't close to being disruptive to even meet G3 or G10 (the criterion you used to delete the page). -- TL22 ( talk) 18:36, 19 April 2015 (UTC)