This is an archive of past discussion threads on User talk:Pi.1415926535, from October 2022 (the end of [[User talk:Pi.1415926535/Archive 18|Archive 18) to March 2023. Please don't modify it. If you wish to revive a discussion, please start a new section on my main talk page and link to the discussion here.
I didn't quite know who to address this with, so I thought I'd ask you since we interacted before. One of the Lincoln Service trips has combined with one of the Missouri River Runner trips. Amtrak appears to have made this permanent for at least the near future ( see here) but it is unclear when (and possibly why) they did this. In any case, how do you think we should address this in the articles of the two trains? ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 14:54, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
In [date], Amtrak began through-routing one round trip of the Missouri River Runner and Lincoln Service, creating a Kansas City–Chicago round tripto each article, and cite it to that page (plus any source that mentions when it began.) Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 18:52, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
I'd like to start by saying I hope this isn't an incorrect use of your talk page. When I loaded your user page, I was presented with all of your good article circles rendering over the first paragraph. This might be a bug with MS Edge, but I thought you might like to know. סשס Grimmchild. He/him, probably 11:24, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your earlier cleanup edits on the articles for the new Silver Line stations (e.g. Ashburn) in Virginia. I am just curious as to your rationale for removing the {{ WMATA Silver west platform layout}} template from the pages. I realize that it may have been a bit repetitive given that some of the info was mentioned in the prose and the stations only serve one line, but almost all, if not all, of the Washington Metro station articles use the station layout template to convey that information. I think it also is just a more visually appealing way to present the info than textually in the prose. Would you have any objections if those were readded for consistency and readability? PlanetJuice ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
The article Ethan Allen Express you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ethan Allen Express for comments about the article, and Talk:Ethan Allen Express/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie ( talk) 06:04, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
A lot of the Muni Metro lines list the line's Owl bus and early morning bus as "connections." For example most of the L Taraval stations list connections to the L Bus and L Owl routes. The way I see it -- they're not connections, I can't ride the train and transfer to one of those buses, they're replacement routes for when the routes aren't operating. I'd like to eliminate those connections. Thoughts? -- RickyCourtney ( talk) 22:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
The article Shipyard Railway you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Shipyard Railway for comments about the article, and Talk:Shipyard Railway/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Marshelec -- Marshelec ( talk) 03:44, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey! I was looking to spruce up the Muni Metro maps to prepare for the upcoming launch of the Central Subway. There are currently two formats. There's the narrow format with BART in red as seen on Template:S Shuttle and there's the wide format with the F Market and the BART shown as on Template:L Taraval. Thoughts on which would be a better format to standardize on? RickyCourtney ( talk) 23:14, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Two years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:51, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Good job making people not want to contribute. Mattl ( talk) 23:45, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
The user Scope Creep continues to abuse their page reviewer power targeting articles I have written. Can you re-review? I have to take this issue up elsewhere as well, it seems, unfortunately. ɱ (talk) 19:30, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
@ Pi.1415926535: - there are three articles still unreviewed. About a half dozen editors have witnessed and agree this was a power abuse. Regardless of that fact, can you review Hotel Revival, W. Byron Ireland, and Please Don't Tell. ɱ (talk) 16:26, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ Pi.1415926535: How goes it. Thanks for posting the bareurl tag to the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Station article, which resulted in so much extra work to update the article. I posted these articles onto the NPP, incorrectly I think, due to the originating editor removing the bareurl tag, which so obviously needed fixed. Can you please check some of the new articles, to ensure they have been updated. scope_creep Talk 14:48, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
The article Medford/Tufts station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Medford/Tufts station for comments about the article, and Talk:Medford/Tufts station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Aria1561 -- Aria1561 ( talk) 05:41, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
On 26 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ethan Allen Express, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ethan Allen Express. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Ethan Allen Express), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
On 29 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shipyard Railway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that management of the Richmond Shipyards "went out of its way to propagandize against" the Shipyard Railway that was built to serve it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shipyard Railway. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Shipyard Railway), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
The article Lake Geneva station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lake Geneva station for comments about the article, and Talk:Lake Geneva station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 22:00, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts) for comments about the article, and Talk:Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 00:42, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Union Station (Burlington, Vermont) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Union Station (Burlington, Vermont) for comments about the article, and Talk:Union Station (Burlington, Vermont)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grk1011 -- Grk1011 ( talk) 16:02, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Cross Street station (MBTA) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cross Street station (MBTA) for comments about the article, and Talk:Cross Street station (MBTA)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 19:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Winchester Highlands station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Winchester Highlands station for comments about the article, and Talk:Winchester Highlands station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 06:42, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
I took the day off from work and grabbed some photos of P&W and Seaview Railroad operations. In particular, there were some MBTA coaches parked near the end of track at Quonset that may be of interest to you, I think they're the MBB coaches [1] [2]. You always seem to remember categories I forget even exist, so I did the best I could and you're of course welcome to add more categories to the uploads. I'll be uploading a few more of the highlights on top of what I've uploaded so far today. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 22:17, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
On 24 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Union Station (Burlington, Vermont), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Burlington Union Station is home to winged monkeys? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Union Station (Burlington, Vermont). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Union Station (Burlington, Vermont)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
BorgQueen ( talk) 12:03, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pi.1415926535. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Arandompersonlol/sandbox/politics, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: the owner has made edits outside of userspace. Thank you. Salvio giuliano 11:38, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
I see this page was prodded and de-prodded back in 2006, so you should probably nominate for deletion. There's never been anything approaching reliable sourcing on the page or (in a reasonable BEFORE). It's a strange page; good eyes for spotting it. BusterD ( talk) 00:26, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on the image on Kenmore Square. If you look over MOS:IMGSIZE, the use of an upright=1.1 image (which is a 10 percent expansion) is entirely permissible and warranted provided it enhances the image. But I looked back at the page and believe it is slightly oversized at that level and reduced it to 1.0. Hope this satisfies your concern. Thanks! Keystone18 ( talk) 16:30, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Pi.1415926535,
Please review WP:G13 so you better understand the very limited circumstances when CSD G13 applies to a User page. We have probably tens of thousands (hundred of thousands?) of rarely edited old User pages that are not eligible for speedy deletion under the G13, at least not until the criteria is changed to apply to them. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 02:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pi.1415926535. When updating the article on the MIT-affiliated kinetic artist Wen-Ying Tsai, I noticed that much of the text seems to be copied verbatim. I pointed this out in the Talkpage Talk:Wen-Ying Tsai, but nobody has responded so far. I need help investigating whether the article text in question is copied from the Tsai Foundation website or vice versa (either with or without permission). I am not sure what to do next, and would appreciate you taking the lead on this, while showing me how to deal with such issues in the future.
I've also been updating the article MIT Museum, and noticed that the map still shows the coordinates of its former location near Central Square, rather than its new Kendall Square location. Can you fix this, or still better, show me how to do this in the future? I need to develop better facility at extracting the coordinates from a map, in a form suitable to cut-and paste into the correct places.
I've noticed that some articles (such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) display two formats of maps in the infobox. I think having both formats available can often be helpful in orienting newcomers to unfamiliar geographical locations. Do you have any thoughts on tradeoffs or comparative strengths and weaknesses of the two formats?
As ever, your help is much appreciated! Reify-tech ( talk) 17:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
@ EoRdE6, Epicgenius, FFM784, Kew Gardens 613, Mackensen, Mitchazenia, Mjdestroyerofworlds, Mliu92, Oknazevad, Reify-tech, RickyCourtney, SJ Morg, Trainsandotherthings, and Whoop whoop pull up: Pinging all of you since we often overlap in topic areas. I've finally catalogued my collection of print sources, in part to serve as a library for editors I collaborate with. If you ever need information from any of these sources, just let me know and I'll be happy to look for it or scan some pages for you. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 23:19, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
On 11 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lake Street station was originally on Pond Street? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
BorgQueen ( talk) 12:03, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Hey Pi,
I was wondering if you could help me identify the location of this photo [3]. It claims to be in Richmond, RI, and therefore presumably along the Wood River Branch Railroad, but the caption reads "Richmond, Scituate, Rhode Island" and I'm not sure if that means it's actually somewhere in Scituate? The only steam railroad in Scituate was a tiny part of the Pawtuxet Valley Railroad [4], and this doesn't look like a match either. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 18:16, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Pi.14.... Quick question, if i may: Why did you revert my edits to a couple of articles, here and here? I realise you wrote "cite bloat", but i'm not quite understanding, because the addition of archive links to references is, i believe, encouraged, since it secures against link rot, right? And it's not as if the "bloat" causes problems for the reader, as it's all in footnotes. Additionally, while you may not have realised it, your reversions put the two articles back in a tracking category of articles with cite parameters which ought to be corrected (Category:CS1 maint: url-status, specifically), which is where i found them originally. Thanks in advance for any light you can shine for me, so i can improve my general gnoming. Happy days ~ Lindsay H ello 16:10, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
I am working on a project for Boston University (each student must edit a wikipedia page/article). I am working on the "Boston University Central Station" article. I noticed that you took all of my text and citations down. I was wondering why? Ismo26 ( talk) 00:40, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your response! That makes sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ismo26 ( talk • contribs) 01:21, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussion threads on User talk:Pi.1415926535, from October 2022 (the end of [[User talk:Pi.1415926535/Archive 18|Archive 18) to March 2023. Please don't modify it. If you wish to revive a discussion, please start a new section on my main talk page and link to the discussion here.
I didn't quite know who to address this with, so I thought I'd ask you since we interacted before. One of the Lincoln Service trips has combined with one of the Missouri River Runner trips. Amtrak appears to have made this permanent for at least the near future ( see here) but it is unclear when (and possibly why) they did this. In any case, how do you think we should address this in the articles of the two trains? ChessEric ( talk · contribs) 14:54, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
In [date], Amtrak began through-routing one round trip of the Missouri River Runner and Lincoln Service, creating a Kansas City–Chicago round tripto each article, and cite it to that page (plus any source that mentions when it began.) Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 18:52, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
I'd like to start by saying I hope this isn't an incorrect use of your talk page. When I loaded your user page, I was presented with all of your good article circles rendering over the first paragraph. This might be a bug with MS Edge, but I thought you might like to know. סשס Grimmchild. He/him, probably 11:24, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I saw your earlier cleanup edits on the articles for the new Silver Line stations (e.g. Ashburn) in Virginia. I am just curious as to your rationale for removing the {{ WMATA Silver west platform layout}} template from the pages. I realize that it may have been a bit repetitive given that some of the info was mentioned in the prose and the stations only serve one line, but almost all, if not all, of the Washington Metro station articles use the station layout template to convey that information. I think it also is just a more visually appealing way to present the info than textually in the prose. Would you have any objections if those were readded for consistency and readability? PlanetJuice ( talk • contribs) 04:32, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
The article Ethan Allen Express you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Ethan Allen Express for comments about the article, and Talk:Ethan Allen Express/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Sammi Brie -- Sammi Brie ( talk) 06:04, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
A lot of the Muni Metro lines list the line's Owl bus and early morning bus as "connections." For example most of the L Taraval stations list connections to the L Bus and L Owl routes. The way I see it -- they're not connections, I can't ride the train and transfer to one of those buses, they're replacement routes for when the routes aren't operating. I'd like to eliminate those connections. Thoughts? -- RickyCourtney ( talk) 22:55, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
The article Shipyard Railway you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Shipyard Railway for comments about the article, and Talk:Shipyard Railway/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Marshelec -- Marshelec ( talk) 03:44, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
Hey! I was looking to spruce up the Muni Metro maps to prepare for the upcoming launch of the Central Subway. There are currently two formats. There's the narrow format with BART in red as seen on Template:S Shuttle and there's the wide format with the F Market and the BART shown as on Template:L Taraval. Thoughts on which would be a better format to standardize on? RickyCourtney ( talk) 23:14, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
Two years! |
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-- Gerda Arendt ( talk) 08:51, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
Good job making people not want to contribute. Mattl ( talk) 23:45, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
The user Scope Creep continues to abuse their page reviewer power targeting articles I have written. Can you re-review? I have to take this issue up elsewhere as well, it seems, unfortunately. ɱ (talk) 19:30, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
@ Pi.1415926535: - there are three articles still unreviewed. About a half dozen editors have witnessed and agree this was a power abuse. Regardless of that fact, can you review Hotel Revival, W. Byron Ireland, and Please Don't Tell. ɱ (talk) 16:26, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi @ Pi.1415926535: How goes it. Thanks for posting the bareurl tag to the Toledo and Ohio Central Railroad Station article, which resulted in so much extra work to update the article. I posted these articles onto the NPP, incorrectly I think, due to the originating editor removing the bareurl tag, which so obviously needed fixed. Can you please check some of the new articles, to ensure they have been updated. scope_creep Talk 14:48, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
The article Medford/Tufts station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Medford/Tufts station for comments about the article, and Talk:Medford/Tufts station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Aria1561 -- Aria1561 ( talk) 05:41, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
On 26 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ethan Allen Express, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Amtrak called the Vermont Rail System the worst host railroad in the country in 2010 due to delays on the Ethan Allen Express? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ethan Allen Express. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Ethan Allen Express), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:02, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
On 29 December 2022, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shipyard Railway, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that management of the Richmond Shipyards "went out of its way to propagandize against" the Shipyard Railway that was built to serve it? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Shipyard Railway. You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Shipyard Railway), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
-- RoySmith (talk) 00:03, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
The article Lake Geneva station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lake Geneva station for comments about the article, and Talk:Lake Geneva station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 22:00, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts) for comments about the article, and Talk:Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 00:42, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Union Station (Burlington, Vermont) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Union Station (Burlington, Vermont) for comments about the article, and Talk:Union Station (Burlington, Vermont)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of Grk1011 -- Grk1011 ( talk) 16:02, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Cross Street station (MBTA) you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Cross Street station (MBTA) for comments about the article, and Talk:Cross Street station (MBTA)/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 19:22, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
The article Winchester Highlands station you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:Winchester Highlands station for comments about the article, and Talk:Winchester Highlands station/GA1 for the nomination. Well done! If the article has not already appeared on the main page as a "Did you know" item, or as a bold link under "In the News" or in the "On This Day" prose section, you can nominate it within the next seven days to appear in DYK. Bolded names with dates listed at the bottom of the "On This Day" column do not affect DYK eligibility. Message delivered by ChristieBot, on behalf of LunaEatsTuna -- LunaEatsTuna ( talk) 06:42, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
I took the day off from work and grabbed some photos of P&W and Seaview Railroad operations. In particular, there were some MBTA coaches parked near the end of track at Quonset that may be of interest to you, I think they're the MBB coaches [1] [2]. You always seem to remember categories I forget even exist, so I did the best I could and you're of course welcome to add more categories to the uploads. I'll be uploading a few more of the highlights on top of what I've uploaded so far today. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 22:17, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
On 24 January 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Union Station (Burlington, Vermont), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Burlington Union Station is home to winged monkeys? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Union Station (Burlington, Vermont). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Union Station (Burlington, Vermont)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
BorgQueen ( talk) 12:03, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pi.1415926535. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of User:Arandompersonlol/sandbox/politics, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: the owner has made edits outside of userspace. Thank you. Salvio giuliano 11:38, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
I see this page was prodded and de-prodded back in 2006, so you should probably nominate for deletion. There's never been anything approaching reliable sourcing on the page or (in a reasonable BEFORE). It's a strange page; good eyes for spotting it. BusterD ( talk) 00:26, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your message on the image on Kenmore Square. If you look over MOS:IMGSIZE, the use of an upright=1.1 image (which is a 10 percent expansion) is entirely permissible and warranted provided it enhances the image. But I looked back at the page and believe it is slightly oversized at that level and reduced it to 1.0. Hope this satisfies your concern. Thanks! Keystone18 ( talk) 16:30, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Pi.1415926535,
Please review WP:G13 so you better understand the very limited circumstances when CSD G13 applies to a User page. We have probably tens of thousands (hundred of thousands?) of rarely edited old User pages that are not eligible for speedy deletion under the G13, at least not until the criteria is changed to apply to them. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 02:33, 15 February 2023 (UTC)
Hello Pi.1415926535. When updating the article on the MIT-affiliated kinetic artist Wen-Ying Tsai, I noticed that much of the text seems to be copied verbatim. I pointed this out in the Talkpage Talk:Wen-Ying Tsai, but nobody has responded so far. I need help investigating whether the article text in question is copied from the Tsai Foundation website or vice versa (either with or without permission). I am not sure what to do next, and would appreciate you taking the lead on this, while showing me how to deal with such issues in the future.
I've also been updating the article MIT Museum, and noticed that the map still shows the coordinates of its former location near Central Square, rather than its new Kendall Square location. Can you fix this, or still better, show me how to do this in the future? I need to develop better facility at extracting the coordinates from a map, in a form suitable to cut-and paste into the correct places.
I've noticed that some articles (such as Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) display two formats of maps in the infobox. I think having both formats available can often be helpful in orienting newcomers to unfamiliar geographical locations. Do you have any thoughts on tradeoffs or comparative strengths and weaknesses of the two formats?
As ever, your help is much appreciated! Reify-tech ( talk) 17:53, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
@ EoRdE6, Epicgenius, FFM784, Kew Gardens 613, Mackensen, Mitchazenia, Mjdestroyerofworlds, Mliu92, Oknazevad, Reify-tech, RickyCourtney, SJ Morg, Trainsandotherthings, and Whoop whoop pull up: Pinging all of you since we often overlap in topic areas. I've finally catalogued my collection of print sources, in part to serve as a library for editors I collaborate with. If you ever need information from any of these sources, just let me know and I'll be happy to look for it or scan some pages for you. Cheers, Pi.1415926535 ( talk) 23:19, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
On 11 March 2023, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts), which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Lake Street station was originally on Pond Street? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts). You are welcome to check how many pageviews the nominated article or articles got while on the front page ( here's how, Lake Street station (Arlington, Massachusetts)), and the hook may be added to the statistics page after its run on the Main Page has completed. 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.
BorgQueen ( talk) 12:03, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
Hey Pi,
I was wondering if you could help me identify the location of this photo [3]. It claims to be in Richmond, RI, and therefore presumably along the Wood River Branch Railroad, but the caption reads "Richmond, Scituate, Rhode Island" and I'm not sure if that means it's actually somewhere in Scituate? The only steam railroad in Scituate was a tiny part of the Pawtuxet Valley Railroad [4], and this doesn't look like a match either. Trainsandotherthings ( talk) 18:16, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
Hello, Pi.14.... Quick question, if i may: Why did you revert my edits to a couple of articles, here and here? I realise you wrote "cite bloat", but i'm not quite understanding, because the addition of archive links to references is, i believe, encouraged, since it secures against link rot, right? And it's not as if the "bloat" causes problems for the reader, as it's all in footnotes. Additionally, while you may not have realised it, your reversions put the two articles back in a tracking category of articles with cite parameters which ought to be corrected (Category:CS1 maint: url-status, specifically), which is where i found them originally. Thanks in advance for any light you can shine for me, so i can improve my general gnoming. Happy days ~ Lindsay H ello 16:10, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
I am working on a project for Boston University (each student must edit a wikipedia page/article). I am working on the "Boston University Central Station" article. I noticed that you took all of my text and citations down. I was wondering why? Ismo26 ( talk) 00:40, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
Thanks for your response! That makes sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ismo26 ( talk • contribs) 01:21, 21 March 2023 (UTC)