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UK Waterways in the Signpost

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject UK Waterways for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Also, if you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 01:13, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

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January Metro

Simply south (talk) and their tree 23:12, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi. The note in the Metro about Kb is a good idea, though you might also want to link to the Wikiobit for Kbthompson. Best wishes for the New Year. -- Ssilvers (talk) 01:01, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

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Yes someone has noticed

This revision to your user page has been noticed. --Stewart (talk | edits) 17:25, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

The Signpost: 31 January 2011

My mottos

When will my approve motto appear in the template? --Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 05:36, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

NVM found it --Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 05:36, 2 February 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Pontyclun railway station

Orlady (talk) 06:03, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedians at IC

Hi there! I'm Vinesh Patel, trying to found Wikipedians at Imperial College as a society. I noticed your message at the bottom of our Signpost mention - do you have any links with College or any feedback on the idea? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinnypatel (talk • contribs) 20:02, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Hi Simply south, thanks for your message. Yes, have just gotten into signing posts but forgot then, thanks. I tried the Wikipedians by alma mater page and sent out a real bunch of messages, but nothing came back! Please let me know if you know anybody at Imperial who might be interested if you think it's a good idea.Vinnypatel (talk) 22:08, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Photo request

Hi! Do you do photo requests? Is Cheshunt convenient to your location?

If so, would you mind photographing:

Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 19:11, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

It is a little out the way for me. If i am ever around Cheshunt station I'll think about it. Simply south...... 19:24, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
Alrighty - If you do decide to take another photo of the building and upload it, please let me know :) WhisperToMe (talk) 19:28, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

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Reading to Plymouth Line

After several years of discussion the consensus was to split the Reading to Plymouth Line article into three articles - Bristol to Exeter line, Reading to Taunton line, and Exeter to Plymouth line. The split has now been done, though fairly crudely as I am not an expert on the subject. It will need an expert eye to look at it and smooth out the edges. SilkTork *YES! 15:22, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

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Merrythought

Thank you for the DYK nomination - I did think about doing it before, but wasn't sure! Also, thanks for your edits to the page. I will try to get some photos of actual Merrythought teddy bears when I get my hands on some, in the near future hopefully! David (talk) 17:20, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

Yeah the only one of those three I would use is the teddy fence one, but the one on the article page is good enough and I think actually shows them in a better (post-restored?) state. I wouldn't make the page too image-heavy: perhaps when there's some better photos of the factory exterior/actual teddy bears available (I'll try to get round in the next month or two to take them myself) a gallery section can be added to the article. David (talk) 18:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I'm just not sure if the factory one would really add anything to the article. It's a bit dull and generic really! And yes, the cottage is just opposite the factory, on the other side of The Wharfage. Nothing to do with Merrythought. David (talk) 19:11, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
I have found a teddy bear photo on flickr which hopefully can be used on Wikipedia. I'll give it a go. David (talk) 20:14, 27 February 2011 (UTC)
Teddy bear photo seems to work out fine (and is allowed etc). I see you wikilinked Ironworkers of Ironbridge — do you think this will have an article/are you intending to write it, or should the wikilink be removed? David (talk) 20:43, 27 February 2011 (UTC)

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Castle Green

Thanks for adding the images to the Castle Park article - I had seen them in Commons but was hoping to get hold of early 20th century photos rather than etchings, to clarify the point that the area still had much of its mediaeval charm in 1939. For now I intend to change the captions to say where the images fit into the street plan, hope you don't mind.

Also, sorry if this smacks of eggs and grandmothers, but are you aware that Castle Green was the name of a street? Here it is [1] Castle Green on pre-war map]. When I checked your edit ('sometimes known as Castle Green') I was surprised to see how right you were! I presume the idiomatic name comes from a folk memory of the old street. RedSquirrel (talk) 09:27, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Try this! [2] RedSquirrel (talk) 18:40, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

March Metro

Better late than never. Simply south...... 22:12, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Template:LOG stations

Hi Simply south, one or more of your changes to this template on the 28th of February broke the template such that Whitechapel was incorrectly displaying as the next/last/terminal station, even when it wasn't - see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Railways#Next station Whitechapel?. I've reverted all the changes you've made that day, which has fixed the problem, even though I don't understand why what you did broke anything.

I'm not clear what your change was intended to do, so I've not been able to check what, if anything, broke as a result of my unmaking them - please do this. Please also check in future that any changes you make to templates do not break existing uses. Thryduulf (talk) 18:14, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

Talkback

Hello, Simply south. You have new messages at Template talk:Cite book.
You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

--Redrose64 (talk) 15:37, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

DYK for Merrythought

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 01:48, 7 March 2011 (UTC) 03:02, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

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DYK for Castle Park, Bristol

—HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 18:02, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

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Artichoke-Boy

Hi, Artichoke-Boy here (remember me?). I want to thank you for giving me a barnstar on July of 2010, and I also want to apologize for my extremely late reply (...maybe "extremely" is too light a word!).

I would normally respond to messages as quickly as possible, but I have been unable to edit Wikipedia or even check my talk page for the past 10 months or so (due to personal reasons). I may be able to resume editing in the not-too-distant future, and I’ll be sure to contribute to the Motto of the Day project again.

Thanks again for the barnstar. ---Artichoke-Boy (talk)(sign) 22:24, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

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April 2011

Welcome to Wikipedia. Although everyone is welcome to contribute to Wikipedia, at least one of your recent edits did appear to be constructive and has not been reverted or removed. Please use the sandbox for any test edits you would like to make, and read the April Fool page to learn more about not falling for silly pranks like this. Thank you. Kayau Voting IS evil 15:41, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

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St Pancras International - naming controversy

Hello, Since you took part in this before, you might like to know that there is a revived proposal under discussion at Talk:St Pancras railway station#Requested move. -- Alarics (talk) 20:03, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

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Tornado outbreak

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MOTD Special nomination for Easter Sunday 24 April 2011

Yes, I know I'm a bit late with this, but it would be very nice if we could have this nomination approved for next Sunday 24 April 2011. Please help, if you have a moment. Thank you, and happy Easter to you and your family!!! All the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:19, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

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MOTD's State of Emergency + 1st of May's Motto

As you probably already know, we are facing some problems at MOTD. I am personally monitoring all the nominations on a daily basis and I'm finding very difficult to aprove the motto for the next day. The number of nominations has grown significantly, but even then it seems not enough. Please, if you have time, take a look at the nominations. And, if you like some of them but you think they are not good enough for being approved because of the set of links or and etcetera, please, try to improve them where it is possible. At this rate, I fear that we will see the end of the project. Thanks in advance.
I have also added a special nomination for this Sunday, 1st of May (International Workers' Day or May Day). Please, take a look at it if you can.
All the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 15:07, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

P.S.: I'm sorry to bother you again, but take a look at this if you can. Once again, thank you. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 18:29, 28 April 2011 (UTC)

Small bit of advice

While scrolling down the TalkPage for the Royal Wedding, my eye (and curiousity) was caught by your new tagline (congrats on 5 years, BTW). So, I wandered over to your review request page...

If I were a reviewing admin, I might look oddly at a review request that didn't follow the instructions regarding entering the Username param for the sub-page: "Please make sure there is no space after your username, as this makes it hard for reviewers to reach your request."

Hope this helps. Cheers! — DennisDallas (talk) 17:32, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

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Mother's Day 2011 or 2012

Okay, I'm here again to bother you (again and again... sorry). Things seem to go much better at MOTD, right now. THANK YOU!!!
The reason why I'm writing you is the following: next Sunday (8th of May) is Mother's Day. I know that it is celebrated on different days around the world, but I'd love if we could (and are able to) make our "very-little" contribution in honour of all the mothers in the world. For the upcoming 8th of May (Sunday) there is already a motto in schedule, but I think that we can move the motto approved for that day to another date and to put one about mothers in place of it. Here is my nomination.
Thank you in advance and all the best! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:50, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

MOTD Barnstar for helping to keep our project "alive"

The MOTD Barnstar
I award the MOTD Barnstar to Simply south for helping to keep our project "alive" during this difficult time. Without you and your so precious help and contributions, we all probably would have seen the end of this project. A BIG THANK YOU!!! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 19:46, 3 May 2011 (UTC)


A brief note, please, read it carefully, especially the last part in bold: The last time we (our project) gave awards to our (its) members on last Summer, then the number of new nominations and reviews of the existing nominations has been diminishing. The end result was the "April crisis" with no mottos for about an entire week. On the contrary, I hope this award will help to maintain our level high or, at least, appropriate to its needs, the needs of our project. I think that around 10 minutes a week to "devote" to the project, when it is possible of course, should be more than enough to achieve the desired result.
Of course, I gave you this award personally, in a personal way and not in the name of the project. This is just a way to say a BIG thank you, so, refrain from returning the award to me or I would be overwhelmed by stars and banners and it is not my intention to "profit" on this, really! Please, do NOT return the award! And, there is no need to thank me, it was my pleasure.
Thanks again (I think I can speak for all the contributors to MOTD) and all the very best!!! –pjoef (talk • contribs) 19:46, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

May Metro

Simply south...... trying to improve for 5 years 22:19, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

UK Light Rail Template

There was formerly another template, a list of Metro systems and undergrounds in the UK which used to appear on several pages such as LU, Merseyrail, Glasgow Underground. In the discussion of that template it was decided to decomission it and merge it with the Light Rail template as theres no definitive defintion between the two and a Metro could still be a light rail. There is also another Metro template Template:Britishmetros which you yourself created without any support or challenge but it is only used once as an illustration on a page discussing UK passenger rail Rail_transport_in_Great_Britain and a couple of legacy appearance where no one cleaned it from before it was recreated by you such as appearing on Docklands rolling stock page but not the Docklands article itself. The concensus was that there should be one template that listed all the non National Rail systems rather than multiple and so the 'Metro' section was created on the more popular Light Rail template.

--WatcherZero (talk) 00:36, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Sorry If you didnt create it but I was going by your comments here Template_talk:UK_light_rail, Problem is any discussion will get bogged down into dicussion of what is Light Rail? which has no definable or concensus agreement going by past discussions and then there will be those who hijack it to argue that Merseyrail is an underground metro. Anyway back to the issue at hand, its one debatable (with multiple proponents and opponents) inclusion which simplifies the rail templates across many pages and for which most people seem happy for it to be there. The LU is clearly not Heavy rail and while it is light rail in technology through frequency and sometimes capacity some argue not light rail in a operational sense. Since theres no medium or inbetween cataegory to put it in people were happy for its inclusion in this template.

P.S. The agreed wiki definition is here under which its Light not heavy Passenger_rail_terminology#Heavy_rail --WatcherZero (talk) 01:58, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

WikiProject UK Railways in the Signpost

WikiProject Report would like to focus on WikiProject UK Railways for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Other editors will also have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 16:37, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

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ECML diagram

Gateshead station is the double station immediately south of the High Level bridge on the 1940 OS map. If you have a copy of Jowett's Railway Atlas, it's on p34. Possibly closed, but it was in the location shown. Mjroots (talk) 21:08, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

I beat you to it . Further corrections and improvements welcome. Mjroots (talk) 21:14, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
According to Jowett's, Fletton Goods was immediately south of Fletton Jn (Just above captialised FLETTON on the map. No idea about the sidings as Newcastle, but I would say that Scotswood is the second station on the Tyne Valle Line after Elswick. I think my original, station-less link was better, was it not? Mjroots (talk) 21:45, 20 May 2011 (UTC)

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Word association games

Hi there

Would you mind taking a look at the other word association games, as I think I've made the most recent move on all of them and I'd quite like to get them going again.

Cheers, Thryduulf (talk) 17:31, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

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Nomination of Zenjirou Tsurugi for deletion

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Nomination of List of Digimon Xros Wars characters for deletion

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Re MOTD

I just thought that given the very few participants on MOTD, it would be unlikely for a likely-to-be-snowed-in motto to get any opposes. But I will wait longer next time I close something. --The Σ talkcontribs 20:46, 30 June 2011 (UTC)

If you could contribute that'd be fab

I've started a discussion over on User:Pjoef's talk page, about the Motto of the Day project and it would be great if you could input your opinion: User talk:pjoef#About the MotD Project. Okay thanks. That Ole Cheesy Dude (Talk to the hand!) 14:48, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

Cupcake For You!

Pjoef has given you a cupcake! Cupcakes promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a cupcake, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. †

I hope you enjoy it (^____^). All the best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:10, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I hope you enjoyed it (^____^), but I forgot to bring the drinks /o\ ...so...

–pjoef (talk • contribs) has given you a bubble tea! Bubble teas promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by giving someone else a bubble tea, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Happy drinking!


Spread the awesomeness of bubble teas by adding {{Bubble tea}} to someone's talk page with a friendly message!

...have a drink on me!
P.S.: I wanted to bring you a cup of exotic iced tea, but the Wikipedia store does not have it /o\.
Best. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 16:59, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

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Tillingbourne Bus Company

Moved to WT:LT#Tillingbourne Bus Company

I've moved the comments there as I think it woud be better if consensus is determined there. Simply south...... digging mountains for 5 years 01:32, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

July Metro

Simply south...... digging mountains for 5 years 21:46, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of Wrotham Park Lodge

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Pre-2007 Village Pups archives

Of interest? Thanks, - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 10:00, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

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List of Docklands Light Railway stations - Geographical coordinates

A number of the geographic coordinates give for stations are incorrect. I haven't checked them all, but several of the first few produce locations near Biggin Hill and Farleigh in south London.--DavidCane (talk) 23:09, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

I've checked those on the individual station articles, and if the coords were in a separate {{coord}} near to the bottom, I've altered it to |latitude=|longitude= in the infobox; this has placed a map in the infobox. When doing so I noticed that South Quay DLR station was still showing as the pre-2009 location, so I've fixed that. Checking by following the coordinates links shows that all DLR station articles (whether altered by me or not) were within 100 metres or so (with the exception of South Quay as noted above), so you can use those to check against. --Redrose64 (talk) 13:37, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
I was rather sloppy when I did them first. I kind of looked at the article without checking the source code and that is why the first time around it produced some surprising results. The second time around I thought it was just to do with inserting | in an order but I got that wrong as the template did not work at all. Hey, third time's the charm, which I checked with GeoHack and found I didn't need to use Google Maps or anything similar, as well as checking the source code and that's what got them corrected.
Thanks for the South Quay spot. Simply south...... improving for 5 years 15:58, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

List of Docklands Light Railway stations

I have finished the copy edit/review of the text sections. I had to remove some duplicated information, so the text is now a bit too low to meet the five fold expansion needed for a DYK candidate. As I don't have access the the book sources, you should check that I haven't changed anything too much from the sources. The following references appear to need page numbers: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10.--DavidCane (talk) 02:46, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

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