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Hello Epicgenius. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of KA3AXCTAH, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Redirect is in another language. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 21:55, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)It's that country's name for itself, so in Kazakh. See the first line of Kazakhstan, where the redirect goes.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 00:49, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Epicgenius,
I started a new page Westchester Square but I made the mistake of not using the proper format of Westchester Square, Bronx since it is a neighborhood in the Bronx. Would you be able to redirect the page so it says Westchester Square, Bronx.
Thank you for your time and effort
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I think your programming idea for the terminal layout template was a great. It inspired me to create a common template for four track local stations, with the hope of just using one template for all local stations instead of having so many templates floating around. It is set up the same way as the terminal layout, but it is not working properly. I was wondering if you knew what was wrong. Attached is the template. Template:NYCS Platform Layout Local Station/4 Track/Underground Thank you. Mysteryman557 ( talk) 06:04, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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Articles which already have the "Ethnicity in NYC" navbox don't need to have the "Ethnicity in NYC" sidebar as well, since the navbox is more extensive then the sidebar. BMK, Grouchy Realist ( talk) 01:13, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Check my edits please here and here. How many levels are there at these stations? Vcohen ( talk) 16:13, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I think you tried to have the page Psybient deleted back in nov 2013 according to your talk page archive. I wonder why this failed just because it failed to live up to WP:A7? That page still fails to list any WP:RS or to live up to WP:GNG. I mostly ask because I seek advice, tips and experience on having pages deleted. For instance that page. AadaamS ( talk) 13:24, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
...that you have apparently decided to take a negative and confrontational attitude towards myself and my edits in several venues on several occasions in recent days. I won't provide diffs, because you know where they are. Considering this, please consider our r'approchment to be once again null and void. You are again banned from posting on my talk page, and I will no longer explain to you with specificity why I have reverted your edits when you make errors. I'm sorry you felt it necessary to take this WP:BATTLEGROUND attitude towards me once again, but each of us is responsible for their own behavior, and yours has resulted in this. Good luck in the future with your editing, I hope you will continue to learn from your mistakes when other editors point them out to you. BMK, Grouchy Realist ( talk) 21:58, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Now, once again, you are asked not to ping me in this discussion. Violation of this can be considered to be harassment (see the recent discussion regarding MilesMoney's multiple "thank you" pings to an editor after been asked not to post on their talk page, which got him blocked for 48 hours). In the words of Stephen Sondheim's brilliant Pacific Overtures, "Please, goodbye." BMK, Grouchy Realist ( talk) 00:33, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi epicgenius, I'm new and trying to start small, just wondering why you reverted my edit on the Pretty Little Liars (TV series) page when it was just one minor correction to grammar which also made it consistent with the rest of the list - "plays" ... "Is" makes no sense? Any tips on how I should have done this better are welcome. Thanks. Melcous ( talk) 16:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Just an FYI that I have reverted your reversion, per WP:BLP. The sentence about a marriage was unsourced and has been disputed in an e-mail to OTRS.-- ukexpat ( talk) 17:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the barnstar (my first real barnstar)! If you wanna contact me about anything Wikipedia-related, drop me a message on my talk page. Happy editing! K6ka ( talk | contrib) 02:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
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Thank you, speaker of many languages including sarcasm, for quality articles such as
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I was in correspondence via OTRS with the editor who edited Konark Sun Temple. I provided some advice, which was ignored.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 18:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
See my most recent edit on D with stroke (disambiguation) regarding your most recent edit there. Do you speak Vietnamese? I don't, you might be right. And do you speak Icelandic (that uses Ð)? comp.arch ( talk) 10:28, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Epicgenius, when you run into edit conflicts on pages like ANI (I assume that you did) the best way to proceed is to open a new window, with a fresh ANI, and re-insert single sections. I don't know if you already did that, but if you didn't, that's probably why you removed my section, which was restored by another editor who also removed your section, which I just reinstated again. Ha, to keep matters simple. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 18:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey Epic, you made a comment at ANI like "Yeah… either semi-protection if it's just these articles being vandalized, or blocking if it's just these IP users who are abusive. Or a combination of these, if it's a whole range of users vandalizing a lot of articles." and put it at both the University of Adelaide section and the one below it regarding an IP. I'm pretty sure you only meant it for the Adelaide one, so I removed it from the IP one below it... please correct me if I guessed wrong!
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With regard to your revert at Defying Gravity (TV series), please note that Wikipedia is not censored. "Friends with benefits" is a bowdlerization of casual sexual relationship, the latter being the title of our article about the topic. The idiomatic phrase is also problematic because it may not be immediately intelligible to non-native English speakers. -- 89.0.255.116 ( talk) 17:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello,
I made a small addition to your page regarding calstock viaduct. Basically adding the fact that it was built from concrete blocks. I thought this addition was relevant and would be of interest to anyone reading about the viaduct.
I just wonder why this addition was deleted.
Please let me have your thoughts.
Kind Regards
Lee Lamble The Old Bakery, Calstock, Cornwall. E-mail ; (Redacted) Tel (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.175.69 ( talk) 17:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. You recently removed my changes on the Roundabout article. I don't understand why. As stated in the article, vehicles can yield and the vehicles don't always need to do a full stop. It is common sense that if they don't make a full stop, and thus don't need to fully regain their speed by accelerating a lot: they keep their momentum. Do I really need to reference basic physics laws to prove that? That's ridiculous. Also, regarding the noise pollution, it is obvious that vehicles generate more noise when they accelerate than when they're not accelerating. Conclusions based on obvious and commonly admitted facts don't need to be referenced. Unless you reverted my changes for another reason? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xzander ( talk • contribs) 17:58, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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Your continued insistence to add station layouts to MBTA stations with only one or two platforms, despite the September discussion in which you were told not to add them, is extremely worrying. The diagrams take up a great deal of space on the page, yet add nothing of value, and WP:NOTTRAVEL very explicitly notes that Wikipedia is not a travel guide. You have offered no reason why you chose to blatantly disregard consensus - and warnings - against the addition of these templates. That is, frankly, unacceptable behavior. I want to discuss this with you before I get other editors involved, but I also want you to understand, in no uncertain terms, that our editign is problematic.
Your diagrams contain numerous errors and false information, which you need to be more careful about. The MBTA does not publicly use designators like 'G' and 'L1' and 'B2', not do the (modern) plans I have for several show any in-house indication of this. Adding them is obvious original research. The third track (#1 on track diagrams) on the north end of the Orange Line has at no point been used as a northbound track in regular service; calling it that on the diagrams is confusing and incorrect. Your track diagram for Back Bay was just plain wrong; you did not even read the existing prose to see what trains use what tracks. Relying on other editors to correct your mistakes is not a good way to go about things.
Your diagrams are nearly impossible for other editors to easily work with, because they're raw HTML rather than wikitext. Before you add even one more diagram, you need to learn some template syntax and create a set of generic templates that take parameters. Adding things that are difficult for others to edit goes against the open-editing model that Wikipedia is based on; the generic indicators that have become accepted in rail articles are those like the s-rail templates that have been turned into high-quality generic templates.
Your edits have also been messing up formatting in the articles. Several times, without any explanation, you have changed {{reflist|3}} or {{reflist|2}} to {{reflist}} on pages with a number of references; this introduces a great deal of whitespace. User:Reify-tech has spent a great deal of time cleaning up formatting problems like this, and it is very strange for you to reintroduce them without consulting anyone.
If you want to keep diagrams in articles, then you need to make several changes. First, forget the levels - the only potentially useful information is the actual track layout. Second, change them into generic templates that anyone can edit. Third, make them able to fit neatly into a standard 300px infobox. A miniaturized diagram - platform levels only, no listing of the next station (that's what the s-rail templates are for), etc - might actually be useful to add just below the s-rail, so long as you can keep it to about 120x300 px for simple stations.
Frankly, though, there are so many more useful things to be doing. Wikipedia is fundamentally an encyclopedia, not a railfan site - thus, what is really needed on station articles is prose. History, future plans, and perhaps the introduction of some higher-quality images as well. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 19:31, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
The information should still be present in the main text, partly because it may not be possible for some readers to access the contents of the infobox.This includes next-stop links. Also, it's a station layout, and preferably should also include levels (but not too many details about them, so as not to violate WP:NOTTRAVEL. Vcohen has a collection of platform templates, in the way that Pi described, here for New York City Subway articles. Perhaps I shall modify these instead. Epicgenius ( talk) 21:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
{{station levels |name=Ground level}} {{station levels |name=platforms}} {{station track |direction=southbound |line=Chartreuse Line |destination=Townville}} {{station platform |type=island |doors=left}} {{station track |direction=northbound |line=Chartreuse Line |destination=Bigcity}}
{{Station levels}}
because {{
Station level}} is already in use) Okay, I will experiment with doing just that. I'll do that on a few stations as a test. Probably
Mattapan (MBTA station) or
Government Center (MBTA station).
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00:18, 10 January 2014 (UTC)You continue to add incorrect information. Your diagram for State is outright wrong; the Orange line platforms are on the same side of the tracks and are not on the same level. This information is available in the article itself, and on images on Commons. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 20:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your message on my ip talk page. I have now explained at Talk:Eurythmy#Other meanings of eurythmy some of the reasons why I think that particular disambiguation may be potentially helpful to Wikipedia users. Regards, 81.147.162.97 ( talk) 00:18, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
I left you a response to your question here. Leoesb1032 ( talk) 16:25, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the heads up I am new to wikipedia.
I didn't save it, could I have the text that was removed?
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Hi, can you please leave the changed text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivdboogaart ( talk • contribs) 15:58, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Epic Genius. I was checking some stats for my account here and noticed that 3 of my edits have been deleted. Am I wrong in assuming that it has been deleted as I made some mistake? If yes then how do I find out what wrong did I do so that I don't repeat that in future. Please assist. Thanks, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 08:17, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Did I receive a barnstar from you and never really repaid the favour? Shame on me, really. Maybe you'll accept this shiny barnstar as a token of appreciation for hard work on improving the encyclopedia. K6ka ( talk | contrib) 20:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC) |
Don't be an epic jackass. By tying together the ends of other lines shown on the diagram, you are implying that they run non-stop between the points shown, which is not the case. I'm bringing this to your attention on your talk page first, to give you the opportunity to self-revert, since you've gotten into disputes before over controversial edits. Useddenim ( talk) 21:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there. Hope you're well. It appears we are at odds as to what should go on Trevor's wikipedia! I am a biographer who has been researching Trevor's life and career for some time now with the aim of eventually writing his biography. I have spoken to Trevor directly and can confirm the information I write on this page is 100 percent correct. Let me know your thoughts, it would be great to reach a compromise on this to save us both a lot of time! Thank you for reading this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sophieskan ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Not trying to knock on you are anything, but how come I don't see the NYC Subway service listing on the List of New York City Subway services page anymore? Reply ASAP. -- Roadrunner3000 ( talk) 00:10, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
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You undid 142.164.182.215's 06:16, 24 January 2014 submission on the January 24 page that was factually accurate. Why? Just curious. XercesBlue ( talk) 21:10, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
I see you tried to rename 145th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), and then reverted it. I understand why you wanted to do so in the first place (the connection to 145th Street (IND Concourse Line)), but wouldn't it make sense to rename the article 145th Street (New York City Subway)? --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 21:32, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for having a look at some of the Japanese Keikyu station articles, as many of them are in need of updating and a general cleanup. If you have time and are looking for a job to do, could you go through all the Keikyu station articles and change the line colours from "Red" to "DeepSkyBlue"? Presumably the person who first created the articles thought red seemed a good idea because that's what colour the trains are, but Keikyu's corporate colour and station branding is all "DeepSkyBlue" - as can be seen from the official website and corresponding Japanese Wikipedia articles. And if you have time, you could also change any occurrences of "Keihin Electric Express Railway" (the old name) to "Keikyu" (its new name since 2010). Thanks. -- DAJF ( talk) 02:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, before mass editing dozens of pages in future, it would be preferable for the problem to be discussed in the Talkpage of a particular page and linking common editors to the discussion. We had agreed in the past to keep "to Changi Airport" on all the pages as it's on every station's signboard, not just Tanah Merah. Thank you. Seloloving ( talk) 08:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Epicgenius, was curious if this edit at Christopher Dorner might've been a mistake. There was a citation request template in place, and the sentence didn't seem confusing to me. Danke, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 02:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I noticed the automated rollback of the addition I made.
I feel that this passage is crucial in order to have a complete understanding of WHY John Ziegler is so ardent in his defense of Joe Paterno. Ziegler's view of Jerry Sandusky, and Sandusky's innocence in relation to these specific charges is a cornerstone of the reasoning for his defense of Joe Paterno and his role in the 2001 incident at Penn State.
The two citations are sourced directly from John Ziegler. TreySuevos ( talk) 22:09, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Actually, I think you were right in the first place. When I read it properly, I realised it was an attack page. Deb ( talk) 18:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
This revert appears to be incorrect. This source confirms most of the changes and I'm not sure what triggered the claim of vandalism here. The user has made other legitimate edits, including to this article. Am I missing something? Alansohn ( talk) 20:32, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe this edit was a mistake. It appears to be legit (e.g., http://www.bearguide.net/disprof.php?name=NABWEEKEND), and I think it's okay for the page.
I haven't followed the page that closely, though, so I might be the one mistaken. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you did err. meteor_sandwich_yum ( talk) 23:53, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Jwpetty1951 isn't a vandal. Just a currently somewhat inept new user who inadvertently stuffed up the formatting on a previous attempt. No doubt will improve with experience. Amandajm ( talk) 02:55, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I translated, duck attack on the German Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
You reverted my edit to 'George Strait' without providing a reason. As I said in the comments, I fixed a line to make it provide the same information as the reference article. Did you look at the reference? I think your reversion of the article made it worse by re-inserting incorrect information that contradicts what is in the reference article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.88.73.162 ( talk) 02:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Epicgenius,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged International Cruise Terminal Station for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:58, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Tonia Todman's date of birth is published as 1935 on the wiki page for her. Her father has a birth year of 1922 ( I know her father, Mr A Barker). A birth year of 1935 for Tonia is unlikely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.136.134 ( talk) 12:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Epicgenius. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of KA3AXCTAH, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Redirect is in another language. Thank you. — Malik Shabazz Talk/ Stalk 21:55, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
( talk page stalker)It's that country's name for itself, so in Kazakh. See the first line of Kazakhstan, where the redirect goes.-- JohnBlackburne words deeds 00:49, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
Epicgenius,
I started a new page Westchester Square but I made the mistake of not using the proper format of Westchester Square, Bronx since it is a neighborhood in the Bronx. Would you be able to redirect the page so it says Westchester Square, Bronx.
Thank you for your time and effort
TheBronxNYC ( talk) 05:58, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
I think your programming idea for the terminal layout template was a great. It inspired me to create a common template for four track local stations, with the hope of just using one template for all local stations instead of having so many templates floating around. It is set up the same way as the terminal layout, but it is not working properly. I was wondering if you knew what was wrong. Attached is the template. Template:NYCS Platform Layout Local Station/4 Track/Underground Thank you. Mysteryman557 ( talk) 06:04, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
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Articles which already have the "Ethnicity in NYC" navbox don't need to have the "Ethnicity in NYC" sidebar as well, since the navbox is more extensive then the sidebar. BMK, Grouchy Realist ( talk) 01:13, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Check my edits please here and here. How many levels are there at these stations? Vcohen ( talk) 16:13, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I think you tried to have the page Psybient deleted back in nov 2013 according to your talk page archive. I wonder why this failed just because it failed to live up to WP:A7? That page still fails to list any WP:RS or to live up to WP:GNG. I mostly ask because I seek advice, tips and experience on having pages deleted. For instance that page. AadaamS ( talk) 13:24, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
...that you have apparently decided to take a negative and confrontational attitude towards myself and my edits in several venues on several occasions in recent days. I won't provide diffs, because you know where they are. Considering this, please consider our r'approchment to be once again null and void. You are again banned from posting on my talk page, and I will no longer explain to you with specificity why I have reverted your edits when you make errors. I'm sorry you felt it necessary to take this WP:BATTLEGROUND attitude towards me once again, but each of us is responsible for their own behavior, and yours has resulted in this. Good luck in the future with your editing, I hope you will continue to learn from your mistakes when other editors point them out to you. BMK, Grouchy Realist ( talk) 21:58, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
Now, once again, you are asked not to ping me in this discussion. Violation of this can be considered to be harassment (see the recent discussion regarding MilesMoney's multiple "thank you" pings to an editor after been asked not to post on their talk page, which got him blocked for 48 hours). In the words of Stephen Sondheim's brilliant Pacific Overtures, "Please, goodbye." BMK, Grouchy Realist ( talk) 00:33, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi epicgenius, I'm new and trying to start small, just wondering why you reverted my edit on the Pretty Little Liars (TV series) page when it was just one minor correction to grammar which also made it consistent with the rest of the list - "plays" ... "Is" makes no sense? Any tips on how I should have done this better are welcome. Thanks. Melcous ( talk) 16:34, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Just an FYI that I have reverted your reversion, per WP:BLP. The sentence about a marriage was unsourced and has been disputed in an e-mail to OTRS.-- ukexpat ( talk) 17:26, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you very much for the barnstar (my first real barnstar)! If you wanna contact me about anything Wikipedia-related, drop me a message on my talk page. Happy editing! K6ka ( talk | contrib) 02:28, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
welcome
Thank you, speaker of many languages including sarcasm, for quality articles such as
List of works in the Museum of Modern Art, for templates for stations and the gnomish work to apply them, for welcoming new users and reverting with kindness, for a cute infobox and
trust, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian!
I was in correspondence via OTRS with the editor who edited Konark Sun Temple. I provided some advice, which was ignored.-- S Philbrick (Talk) 18:49, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
See my most recent edit on D with stroke (disambiguation) regarding your most recent edit there. Do you speak Vietnamese? I don't, you might be right. And do you speak Icelandic (that uses Ð)? comp.arch ( talk) 10:28, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Epicgenius, when you run into edit conflicts on pages like ANI (I assume that you did) the best way to proceed is to open a new window, with a fresh ANI, and re-insert single sections. I don't know if you already did that, but if you didn't, that's probably why you removed my section, which was restored by another editor who also removed your section, which I just reinstated again. Ha, to keep matters simple. Thanks, Drmies ( talk) 18:25, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
Hey Epic, you made a comment at ANI like "Yeah… either semi-protection if it's just these articles being vandalized, or blocking if it's just these IP users who are abusive. Or a combination of these, if it's a whole range of users vandalizing a lot of articles." and put it at both the University of Adelaide section and the one below it regarding an IP. I'm pretty sure you only meant it for the Adelaide one, so I removed it from the IP one below it... please correct me if I guessed wrong!
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With regard to your revert at Defying Gravity (TV series), please note that Wikipedia is not censored. "Friends with benefits" is a bowdlerization of casual sexual relationship, the latter being the title of our article about the topic. The idiomatic phrase is also problematic because it may not be immediately intelligible to non-native English speakers. -- 89.0.255.116 ( talk) 17:02, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello,
I made a small addition to your page regarding calstock viaduct. Basically adding the fact that it was built from concrete blocks. I thought this addition was relevant and would be of interest to anyone reading about the viaduct.
I just wonder why this addition was deleted.
Please let me have your thoughts.
Kind Regards
Lee Lamble The Old Bakery, Calstock, Cornwall. E-mail ; (Redacted) Tel (Redacted) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.144.175.69 ( talk) 17:54, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. You recently removed my changes on the Roundabout article. I don't understand why. As stated in the article, vehicles can yield and the vehicles don't always need to do a full stop. It is common sense that if they don't make a full stop, and thus don't need to fully regain their speed by accelerating a lot: they keep their momentum. Do I really need to reference basic physics laws to prove that? That's ridiculous. Also, regarding the noise pollution, it is obvious that vehicles generate more noise when they accelerate than when they're not accelerating. Conclusions based on obvious and commonly admitted facts don't need to be referenced. Unless you reverted my changes for another reason? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Xzander ( talk • contribs) 17:58, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
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Your continued insistence to add station layouts to MBTA stations with only one or two platforms, despite the September discussion in which you were told not to add them, is extremely worrying. The diagrams take up a great deal of space on the page, yet add nothing of value, and WP:NOTTRAVEL very explicitly notes that Wikipedia is not a travel guide. You have offered no reason why you chose to blatantly disregard consensus - and warnings - against the addition of these templates. That is, frankly, unacceptable behavior. I want to discuss this with you before I get other editors involved, but I also want you to understand, in no uncertain terms, that our editign is problematic.
Your diagrams contain numerous errors and false information, which you need to be more careful about. The MBTA does not publicly use designators like 'G' and 'L1' and 'B2', not do the (modern) plans I have for several show any in-house indication of this. Adding them is obvious original research. The third track (#1 on track diagrams) on the north end of the Orange Line has at no point been used as a northbound track in regular service; calling it that on the diagrams is confusing and incorrect. Your track diagram for Back Bay was just plain wrong; you did not even read the existing prose to see what trains use what tracks. Relying on other editors to correct your mistakes is not a good way to go about things.
Your diagrams are nearly impossible for other editors to easily work with, because they're raw HTML rather than wikitext. Before you add even one more diagram, you need to learn some template syntax and create a set of generic templates that take parameters. Adding things that are difficult for others to edit goes against the open-editing model that Wikipedia is based on; the generic indicators that have become accepted in rail articles are those like the s-rail templates that have been turned into high-quality generic templates.
Your edits have also been messing up formatting in the articles. Several times, without any explanation, you have changed {{reflist|3}} or {{reflist|2}} to {{reflist}} on pages with a number of references; this introduces a great deal of whitespace. User:Reify-tech has spent a great deal of time cleaning up formatting problems like this, and it is very strange for you to reintroduce them without consulting anyone.
If you want to keep diagrams in articles, then you need to make several changes. First, forget the levels - the only potentially useful information is the actual track layout. Second, change them into generic templates that anyone can edit. Third, make them able to fit neatly into a standard 300px infobox. A miniaturized diagram - platform levels only, no listing of the next station (that's what the s-rail templates are for), etc - might actually be useful to add just below the s-rail, so long as you can keep it to about 120x300 px for simple stations.
Frankly, though, there are so many more useful things to be doing. Wikipedia is fundamentally an encyclopedia, not a railfan site - thus, what is really needed on station articles is prose. History, future plans, and perhaps the introduction of some higher-quality images as well. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 19:31, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
The information should still be present in the main text, partly because it may not be possible for some readers to access the contents of the infobox.This includes next-stop links. Also, it's a station layout, and preferably should also include levels (but not too many details about them, so as not to violate WP:NOTTRAVEL. Vcohen has a collection of platform templates, in the way that Pi described, here for New York City Subway articles. Perhaps I shall modify these instead. Epicgenius ( talk) 21:29, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
{{station levels |name=Ground level}} {{station levels |name=platforms}} {{station track |direction=southbound |line=Chartreuse Line |destination=Townville}} {{station platform |type=island |doors=left}} {{station track |direction=northbound |line=Chartreuse Line |destination=Bigcity}}
{{Station levels}}
because {{
Station level}} is already in use) Okay, I will experiment with doing just that. I'll do that on a few stations as a test. Probably
Mattapan (MBTA station) or
Government Center (MBTA station).
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00:18, 10 January 2014 (UTC)You continue to add incorrect information. Your diagram for State is outright wrong; the Orange line platforms are on the same side of the tracks and are not on the same level. This information is available in the article itself, and on images on Commons. Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 20:56, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
Thank you for your message on my ip talk page. I have now explained at Talk:Eurythmy#Other meanings of eurythmy some of the reasons why I think that particular disambiguation may be potentially helpful to Wikipedia users. Regards, 81.147.162.97 ( talk) 00:18, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
I left you a response to your question here. Leoesb1032 ( talk) 16:25, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, thanks for the heads up I am new to wikipedia.
I didn't save it, could I have the text that was removed?
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Hello. Several new proposals have been submitted at Wikipedia:Pending changes/Request for Comment 2014 since you last commented on it. You are invited to return to comment on the new proposals. Jackmcbarn ( talk) 01:14, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, can you please leave the changed text? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivdboogaart ( talk • contribs) 15:58, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Epic Genius. I was checking some stats for my account here and noticed that 3 of my edits have been deleted. Am I wrong in assuming that it has been deleted as I made some mistake? If yes then how do I find out what wrong did I do so that I don't repeat that in future. Please assist. Thanks, Arun Kumar SINGH (Talk) 08:17, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
Note that this 'server count' [which you can see at Special:Preferences ] also includes deleted edits; if an edit is deleted (for instance, the user tagged an article for speedy deletion and the article was subsequently deleted), the server count continues to reflect that edit having been made.Have you nominated any articles for deletion recently, by any chance?
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Did I receive a barnstar from you and never really repaid the favour? Shame on me, really. Maybe you'll accept this shiny barnstar as a token of appreciation for hard work on improving the encyclopedia. K6ka ( talk | contrib) 20:43, 21 January 2014 (UTC) |
Don't be an epic jackass. By tying together the ends of other lines shown on the diagram, you are implying that they run non-stop between the points shown, which is not the case. I'm bringing this to your attention on your talk page first, to give you the opportunity to self-revert, since you've gotten into disputes before over controversial edits. Useddenim ( talk) 21:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
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Hi there. Hope you're well. It appears we are at odds as to what should go on Trevor's wikipedia! I am a biographer who has been researching Trevor's life and career for some time now with the aim of eventually writing his biography. I have spoken to Trevor directly and can confirm the information I write on this page is 100 percent correct. Let me know your thoughts, it would be great to reach a compromise on this to save us both a lot of time! Thank you for reading this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sophieskan ( talk • contribs) 10:50, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
Not trying to knock on you are anything, but how come I don't see the NYC Subway service listing on the List of New York City Subway services page anymore? Reply ASAP. -- Roadrunner3000 ( talk) 00:10, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi Epicgenius, I just wanted to let you know that I have added the autopatrolled right to your account, as you have created numerous, valid articles. This feature will have no effect on your editing, and is simply intended to reduce the workload on new page patrollers. For more information on the patroller right, see Wikipedia:Autopatrolled. Feel free to leave me a message if you have any questions. Happy editing! Admr Boltz 15:58, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
You undid 142.164.182.215's 06:16, 24 January 2014 submission on the January 24 page that was factually accurate. Why? Just curious. XercesBlue ( talk) 21:10, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
I see you tried to rename 145th Street (IND Eighth Avenue Line), and then reverted it. I understand why you wanted to do so in the first place (the connection to 145th Street (IND Concourse Line)), but wouldn't it make sense to rename the article 145th Street (New York City Subway)? --------- User:DanTD ( talk) 21:32, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi. Thanks for having a look at some of the Japanese Keikyu station articles, as many of them are in need of updating and a general cleanup. If you have time and are looking for a job to do, could you go through all the Keikyu station articles and change the line colours from "Red" to "DeepSkyBlue"? Presumably the person who first created the articles thought red seemed a good idea because that's what colour the trains are, but Keikyu's corporate colour and station branding is all "DeepSkyBlue" - as can be seen from the official website and corresponding Japanese Wikipedia articles. And if you have time, you could also change any occurrences of "Keihin Electric Express Railway" (the old name) to "Keikyu" (its new name since 2010). Thanks. -- DAJF ( talk) 02:09, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello, before mass editing dozens of pages in future, it would be preferable for the problem to be discussed in the Talkpage of a particular page and linking common editors to the discussion. We had agreed in the past to keep "to Changi Airport" on all the pages as it's on every station's signboard, not just Tanah Merah. Thank you. Seloloving ( talk) 08:10, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
Hi, Epicgenius, was curious if this edit at Christopher Dorner might've been a mistake. There was a citation request template in place, and the sentence didn't seem confusing to me. Danke, Cyphoidbomb ( talk) 02:01, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
I noticed the automated rollback of the addition I made.
I feel that this passage is crucial in order to have a complete understanding of WHY John Ziegler is so ardent in his defense of Joe Paterno. Ziegler's view of Jerry Sandusky, and Sandusky's innocence in relation to these specific charges is a cornerstone of the reasoning for his defense of Joe Paterno and his role in the 2001 incident at Penn State.
The two citations are sourced directly from John Ziegler. TreySuevos ( talk) 22:09, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
Actually, I think you were right in the first place. When I read it properly, I realised it was an attack page. Deb ( talk) 18:34, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
This revert appears to be incorrect. This source confirms most of the changes and I'm not sure what triggered the claim of vandalism here. The user has made other legitimate edits, including to this article. Am I missing something? Alansohn ( talk) 20:32, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
I believe this edit was a mistake. It appears to be legit (e.g., http://www.bearguide.net/disprof.php?name=NABWEEKEND), and I think it's okay for the page.
I haven't followed the page that closely, though, so I might be the one mistaken. Just thought I'd bring it to your attention in case you did err. meteor_sandwich_yum ( talk) 23:53, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
Jwpetty1951 isn't a vandal. Just a currently somewhat inept new user who inadvertently stuffed up the formatting on a previous attempt. No doubt will improve with experience. Amandajm ( talk) 02:55, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
I translated, duck attack on the German Main page ;) -- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 10:14, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
You reverted my edit to 'George Strait' without providing a reason. As I said in the comments, I fixed a line to make it provide the same information as the reference article. Did you look at the reference? I think your reversion of the article made it worse by re-inserting incorrect information that contradicts what is in the reference article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.88.73.162 ( talk) 02:44, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
Hello Epicgenius,
I wanted to let you know that I just tagged International Cruise Terminal Station for deletion, because the article doesn't clearly say why the subject is important enough to be included in an encyclopedia.
If you feel that the article shouldn't be deleted and want more time to work on it, you can contest this deletion, but please don't remove the speedy deletion tag from the top.
You can leave a note on my talk page if you have questions. Ad Orientem ( talk) 02:58, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
Tonia Todman's date of birth is published as 1935 on the wiki page for her. Her father has a birth year of 1922 ( I know her father, Mr A Barker). A birth year of 1935 for Tonia is unlikely. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.2.136.134 ( talk) 12:17, 31 January 2014 (UTC)